From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 1 19:19:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cliff.mfn.org (cliff.mfn.org [204.238.179.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7591637B66C for ; Sun, 1 Oct 2000 19:19:43 -0700 (PDT) X-Message1: Missouri FreeNet does not relay. If this email X-Message2: is unsolicited bulk or commercial, please report X-Message3: this abuse promptly to abuse@mfn.org. Thank You. X-ORIGINIP: 128.242.145.201 X-ORIGINDNS: imaging.mfn.org Received: from imaging (imaging.mfn.org [128.242.145.201]) by cliff.mfn.org (8.9.3/8.8.7) with SMTP id WAA79303 for ; Sun, 1 Oct 2000 22:26:25 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from lart@mfn.org) Posted-Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2000 22:26:25 -0500 (CDT) X-CUTMARK: --------------- Message-ID: <019d01c02c15$f2b72c80$c991f280@mfn.org> From: "graphics" To: Subject: High Performance NICs Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2000 21:10:31 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greetings, We have several very-high throughput boxen (>300 GB/day each) sitting on an Arrowpoint CS100 switch. Our problem is that at these sustained throughput levels, our NICs just crumble :-( We've tried 3 Com 905B (garbage) 3 Com 509 (so-so) A variety of Realtek based TX cards (slow...) and a DEC 21140 based card (great when it works, but seems to crap out at the high end of the traffic curve) FreeBSD handles some of the highest loaded sites in the world, so I *know* it can handle it with the right NIC. My question should be obvious: what NICs do the readers recommend? Thanks! J.A. Terranson sysadmin@mfn.org (Please CC off list, as we are not subscribed: thanks!) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message