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From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To: graphics <lart@mfn.org>
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Subject: Re: High Performance NICs
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* graphics <lart@mfn.org> [001001 19:20] wrote:
> 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 :-(

you want fxp (Intel EtherExpress Pro).

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-Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org]
"I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk."


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