Hi-- On Jan 21, 2010, at 9:27 AM, John wrote: > This used to be a hot topic long ago, but now seems to have become > rather dormant. Does that mean that all NICs are pretty much > commodity with all the good features (unaligned scatter/gather, > etc), or does it just mean that machine performance has grown to > the point where we don't care anymore? The hardware.html page > tells me what may owrk, but not what may work WELL. The on-board > NIC uses the fxp driver. Should I look for another card that uses > the same driver?
Intel (fxp, em) and Broadcom (bce, bge) make fine NICs, and the older DEC/Intel 21x4x Tulip series (dc/de) was quite good as well. The Marvel Yukon (msk) and nVidia MCP (nfe/nve) seem to be OK (although older nVidia hardware had bugs); the Realtek (re/rl) and VIA (vr/vge) are at the bottom of the heap, especially the older pre-gigabit hardware. Regards, -- -Chuck _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
