Re: network cards - which one is the best ;>

2006-09-04 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2006/09/04 13:25, Bill Marquette wrote: > More or less :) I can certainly continue to live with em(4), but I'm > definitely seeing some bottlenecks (interrupt load) with it on my > hardware (HP DL380 G4's - I have some new DL385's in that I haven't > benchmarked) w/ i386 non-MP kernel sk(4) ca

Re: network cards - which one is the best ;>

2006-09-04 Thread Bill Marquette
On 9/4/06, Matthew R. Dempsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 09:30:13AM +, Marcus Popp wrote: > On 2006-09-03T23:16, Bill Marquette wrote: > > Other than Intel, is anyone else making quad port gig cards? > > Silicom makes em-based quad/six port cards. I thought the point

Re: network cards - which one is the best ;>

2006-09-04 Thread Matthew R. Dempsky
On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 09:30:13AM +, Marcus Popp wrote: > On 2006-09-03T23:16, Bill Marquette wrote: > > Other than Intel, is anyone else making quad port gig cards? > > Silicom makes em-based quad/six port cards. I thought the point of this subthread was Bill trying to avoid em(4)-based card

followup: Re: network cards - which one is the best ;>

2006-09-04 Thread Timo Schoeler
thus Marcus Popp spake: On 2006-09-03T23:16, Bill Marquette wrote: On 9/3/06, Ted Unangst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 9/3/06, Sylwester S. Biernacki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I use Intel cards for several years and was happy of them almost all the time. However, after I've read about th

Re: network cards - which one is the best ;>

2006-09-04 Thread Timo Schoeler
thus Marcus Popp spake: On 2006-09-03T23:16, Bill Marquette wrote: On 9/3/06, Ted Unangst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 9/3/06, Sylwester S. Biernacki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I use Intel cards for several years and was happy of them almost all the time. However, after I've read about th

Re: network cards - which one is the best ;>

2006-09-04 Thread Marcus Popp
On 2006-09-03T23:16, Bill Marquette wrote: > On 9/3/06, Ted Unangst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On 9/3/06, Sylwester S. Biernacki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I use Intel cards for several years and was happy of them almost all > >> the time. However, after I've read about them at this lis

Re: network cards - which one is the best ;>

2006-09-03 Thread Bill Marquette
On 9/3/06, Ted Unangst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 9/3/06, Sylwester S. Biernacki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I use Intel cards for several years and was happy of them almost all > the time. However, after I've read about them at this list & usenet > for the last few months I had to stan

Re: network cards - which one is the best ;>

2006-09-03 Thread Ted Unangst
On 9/3/06, Sylwester S. Biernacki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I use Intel cards for several years and was happy of them almost all the time. However, after I've read about them at this list & usenet for the last few months I had to stand up and throw away all of them. Theo wrote about e

Re: network cards - which one is the best ;>

2006-09-03 Thread Ray Percival
On Sep 3, 2006, at 6:16 PM, Matthew R. Dempsky wrote: On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 05:00:37PM -0700, Ray Percival wrote: On Sep 3, 2006, at 3:59 PM, Sylwester S. Biernacki wrote: Theo wrote about em driver in OpenBSD and bad vendor design of Intel NICs in general. Exactly the opposite I have use

Re: network cards - which one is the best ;>

2006-09-03 Thread Matthew R. Dempsky
On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 05:00:37PM -0700, Ray Percival wrote: > On Sep 3, 2006, at 3:59 PM, Sylwester S. Biernacki wrote: > > Theo wrote about em driver in OpenBSD and bad vendor design of Intel > > NICs in general. Exactly the opposite I have used Intel server cards > > with ~320Mbps traffic (m

Re: network cards - which one is the best ;>

2006-09-03 Thread Ray Percival
On Sep 3, 2006, at 3:59 PM, Sylwester S. Biernacki wrote: Theo wrote about em driver in OpenBSD and bad vendor design of Intel NICs in general. Exactly the opposite I have used Intel server cards with ~320Mbps traffic (max of old PCI board ;P) and everything worked as it should. I