Hi all, I'm about to build a router using a Sun Fire X2200, which comes with 4 on-board gigabit ethernet interfaces:
nfe0 at pci0 dev 8 function 0 "NVIDIA MCP55 LAN" rev 0xa3 eephy0 at nfe0 phy 2: Marvell 88E1149 Gigabit PHY, rev. 1 nfe1 at pci0 dev 9 function 0 "NVIDIA MCP55 LAN" rev 0xa3 eephy1 at nfe1 phy 3: Marvell 88E1149 Gigabit PHY, rev. 1 bge0 at pci6 dev 4 function 0 "Broadcom BCM5715" rev 0xa3, BCM5715 A3 brgphy0 at bge0 phy 1: BCM5714 10/100/1000baseT PHY, rev. 0 bge1 at pci6 dev 4 function 1 "Broadcom BCM5715" rev 0xa3, BCM5715 A3 brgphy1 at bge1 phy 1: BCM5714 10/100/1000baseT PHY, rev. 0 Given I will need one to be a trunk port to a cisco switch, which will carry the bulk of the data, and one to be the pfsync link to its CARP twin, and possibly a management interface on a third, I was wondering if there's any difference between the two chips, eg bge does more work and uses fewer interrupts, so use that for the trunk, or similar? I have seen discussions on here on which NICs to choose for the best router performance, but I was wondering if anyone knew of any noticeable differences between the ones I already have. SD
