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From: Sean Bruno <seanbru@yahoo-inc.com>
To: Daniel Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il>
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Subject: Re: recommended 10g cards
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On Thu, 2012-06-07 at 23:54 -0700, Daniel Braniss wrote:
> Hi
> I will be 'experimenting' with 10g in the next few months, so 
> I need to buy  some cards,
> After googling for some time, I noticed that there is not realy much real
> info, and some of it is a bit dated.
> Since these cards are pricy, could those that have such cards share some info?
> cheers,
> 	danny
> 

The intel 10G and chelsio cards are ones that we've screwed around with
here at Yahoo.  You probably would have the most likely success with the
intel driver, ixgbe(4).

Sean