yeah, do a tcp thruput test between two boxes and tell me if you get more then 800mbs, then slap intel cards in the box and do it again, been there done that granted its better then it was in 5.x but still nothing close to what it should be for the bandwidth your giving up, let me know cause we tested 6.0 2 months ago and broadcom cards were running 670mbps tops.
On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 10:35 -0500, Chris Buechler wrote: > Lists wrote: > > >uhhh broadcoms suck under FreeBSD also, well at least the GigE chipsets, > > > > > > I would have agreed with anything prior to 6.0, but ever since upgrading > my one PowerEdge 2550 with a bge gig card to 6.0, it's been rock solid. > On 5.4, it wasn't too horribly bad, but it would drop off for anywhere > betweeen a few seconds to a couple minutes a day (watchdog timeout and > would come back up on its own). It's been a couple weeks with 0 issues, > which never happened under 5.4, so I'm hopeful the problems are solved. > *knock on wood* > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]