On Friday 07 February 2003 01:25, David Gilbert wrote: > We're about to make the switch from 100M interfaces to GigE interfaces > for our transit routers ... which are FreeBSD-5.0 based SMP (Athlon) > boxes. Our current favorite card is the intel i82559-based fxp > cards. They handle the load best on our testing of 100M cards. > Remember that our load is large and small packets and that hardware > checksums are not a win (although hardware vlans are). > > So... I need to know what GigE chipsets I should test. I recently > tested Intel GigE cards ... with dismal results... less than half the > packets-per-second on the (otherwise) same hardware. Small packets > (as in DOS attacks) are a real concern here.
Wow, this wasn't my experience at all. At my previous employer we used Intel EEPro 1000 Server cards with the em(4) driver on FreeBSD 4.5 with nary a hitch and excellent performance. This was on ServerWorks chipset motherboards with P-III and P4 processors. > I believe that someone here recomended Tigon III based cards ... but I > was recently looking through 5.0-RELEASE's hardware notes and couldn't > find any mention of Tigon III. The follow-on to the Tigon II is the Broadcom BCM570x supported by the bge(4) driver in FreeBSD. This is not what you want. They're certainly cheap to test with, though; the Netgear GA302T sells for under $40 at a few online retailers. -- Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket? Wes Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message