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On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 3:43 AM, Andrew Snow <andrew@modulus.org> wrote:
>
> I can confirm that FreeBSD 7.0-RC1 can route packets at 1gbps.  I used a
> late-model Supermicro Xeon server which has two gigabit NICs on a
> PCI-express "4x" lane.
>
> With the new em driver improvements in 7 it uses very little CPU time, I
> would recommend using Pro/1000 on 7.0 with a decent server motherboard
> if you want to achieve this speed.
>
> - Andrew
>
>

I remember somebody mentioned that the packet switching/routing performance
of AMD Opteron machines was much bigger than Intel's, mostly due to
the integrated
memory controller.
Has anyone done any comparisons between the two architectures?

  --Niki