Re: Good gigabit NIC for 4.11?

2005-12-23 Thread Julian Elischer
"."@babolo.ru wrote: I've been Googling up a storm but I am having trouble finding recommendations for a good gigabit ethernet card to use with 4.11. The Intel part numbers I found in the em readme are a few years old now, and I can't quite determine how happy people are with other chipsets de

Re: Good gigabit NIC for 4.11?

2005-12-23 Thread Rink Springer
> backplane bus to handle that kinda bandwidth, whereas a consumer > grade motherboard where the GB NIC is hanging off the PCI bus rather > than being integrated into the northbridge is not going to do nearly > so well. Indeed, this is why I specifically said: desktop NIC's... my onboard bge

Re: Good gigabit NIC for 4.11?

2005-12-23 Thread .
> I've been Googling up a storm but I am having trouble finding > recommendations for a good gigabit ethernet card to use with 4.11. The > Intel part numbers I found in the em readme are a few years old now, and > I can't quite determine how happy people are with other chipsets despite > my sea

Re: Good gigabit NIC for 4.11?

2005-12-23 Thread Charles Swiger
On Dec 23, 2005, at 4:47 PM, Rink Springer wrote: However, there is little point to trying to use GB and jumbo frames on a NIC in a standard 33MHz PCI slot; unless you have PCI Express slots available or a GB card integrated with the chipset, the PCI bus will bottleneck the system from doing much

Re: Good gigabit NIC for 4.11?

2005-12-23 Thread Rink Springer
> However, there is little point to trying to use GB and jumbo frames > on a NIC in a standard 33MHz PCI slot; unless you have PCI Express > slots available or a GB card integrated with the chipset, the PCI bus > will bottleneck the system from doing much better than a 100Mbs NIC > would pe

Re: Good gigabit NIC for 4.11?

2005-12-23 Thread Charles Swiger
On Dec 23, 2005, at 2:32 PM, Matt Staroscik wrote: I'm looking for a basic PCI 1-port card with jumbo frame support if possible--I can live without it. Either way, stability is much more important than performance. 4.11 ought to work well with both the Broadcom and Intel GB NICs. However, ther

Re: Good gigabit NIC for 4.11?

2005-12-23 Thread Julian Elischer
Matt Staroscik wrote: I've been Googling up a storm but I am having trouble finding recommendations for a good gigabit ethernet card to use with 4.11. The Intel part numbers I found in the em readme are a few years old now, and I can't quite determine how happy people are with other chipsets d

Good gigabit NIC for 4.11?

2005-12-23 Thread Matt Staroscik
I've been Googling up a storm but I am having trouble finding recommendations for a good gigabit ethernet card to use with 4.11. The Intel part numbers I found in the em readme are a few years old now, and I can't quite determine how happy people are with other chipsets despite my searches. I'

Re: Network performance measurements of -current

2005-12-23 Thread Andre Oppermann
ShouYan Mao wrote: > > So, would you try it with PCI-E Gigabit card? I would if I had a PCI-E system and suitable PCI-E Gigabit cards. Feel free to send me a test system. -- Andre > Best Regards. > Shouyan > > --- > I'm not the best, but I

RE: Network performance measurements of -current

2005-12-23 Thread ShouYan Mao
So, would you try it with PCI-E Gigabit card? Best Regards. Shouyan --- I'm not the best, but I try to do better. --- -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTE