On 19/02/2016 16:19, ED Fochler wrote: > My experience has been that intel nics are bad in the 10G space, especially > under BSD. I’ve had good luck with Myricom and Chelsio on BSD, though I > haven’t used either specifically on PFSense. > > >> >> Also, AFAIK, chelsio NICs are better in the 10G space. >> >> ESF uses them in some of their appliances (see the shop). >> Netflix uses them, too, in their FreeBSD cache-boxes. >> >> They aren’t really that much more expensive than Intel NICs. >> >> I have no experience using them myself. >> >>
Interesting - thanks all. Netmap looks very interesting - i'll keep an eye on the development work with that one. Hadn't come across either Myricom or Chelsio NICs before - but am looking now. I'd heard from others in the past that Solarflare NICs also performed well, although they're a significantly higher price point than the Intels! Don't suppose anyone has any real-world performance indicators, even just anecdotal ones, on reasonable throughput levels that can be expected with any of these alternative NICs? I agree, the Intel cards don't seem to do massively well under BSD. Thanks again for the replies all - some good suggestions to go and look at there. :) Cheers, Giles. _______________________________________________ pfSense mailing list https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list Support the project with Gold! https://pfsense.org/gold
