Generally speaking the Intel ones are preferable, because Intel does the best 
job of keeping those drivers up to date for all open-source platforms.

Just pushed into illumos, and coming soon to r151014 is OPEN-SOURCE support for 
Broadcom NetXtreme II (now owned by QLogic) 10GigE  (the "bnxe" driver).  It's 
not nearly as good as Intel's code, or likely Intel's HW, but now that it is 
open-source, it becomes a viable alternative, because people can now fix the 
driver if there is a problem.

I'd still use Intel 10Gig where possible, but if you're stuck on HW with 
formerly-Broadcom 10GigE, your luck will be improving somewhat.

Dan

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