Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 11:36:10 -0700 From: "George V. Neville-Neil" <gnn@neville-neil.com> To: Chance Whaley <chance@dreamscope.com> Cc: net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Opinions on "best" NIC for high-touch applications Message-ID: <8765bt18md.wl@jchurch.neville-neil.com.neville-neil.com> In-Reply-To: <20040421092402.B16278@caliban.dreamscope.com> References: <20040421092402.B16278@caliban.dreamscope.com>
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At Wed, 21 Apr 2004 09:36:45 -0700 (PDT), Chance Whaley wrote: > I have an application where I am doing quite a bit of high-touch packet > fiddling and I am looking for opinions on which "standard" Gb NIC > has the best driver support in 5.2 or CURRENT. > > In my dream world I am looking for something that supports: > - IRQ mitigation / polling (absolute must) > - PCI-X (absolute must) > - HW checksumming > - Scatter / Gather > - IPsec > - Jumbo frames > - VLANs > > Thoughts?? > I think you want the Netear Copper Gigiabit Adapter (GA302T) which is well supported in 5.x. I don't know if it supports all that you want, but you should check it out at least. The driver is if_bge.c. Later, George
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