At Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:02:33 +1000, Aristedes Maniatis wrote: > > > On 15/04/2008, at 10:54 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I am working with the Chelsio hardware and it seems to be well > > supported on FreeBSD. All the machines in that system are FreeBSD > > though. How do you intend to get the OSX systems to be 10GE? > > > What sort of throughput are you getting with that setup? Are you using > NFS between the systems?
I haven't done any performance testing of bandwidth as yet and we are not using these for NFS. > Good question about OSX, and I hadn't got to that part yet :-) But I > was hoping that some OSX drivers existed. My fail back plan is to > put 3 x 1GbE NICs into the server and just use crossover cable > between the 3 workstations and the server to avoid any contention > within the ethernet network. I think you want either a pure 10GbE network or a pure 1GbE network because my understanding is that 10GbE switches have issues with mixed links. I have not tested that first hand yet though. Best, George _______________________________________________ freebsd-performance@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-performance To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
