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Subject: Re: Freebsd IP Forwarding performance (question,
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I hope so, if they maintain the driver then why wouldn't they make it 
take advantage of their own hardware? 
I hope they are stuck focusing on windows users :/

Mike Tancsa wrote:
> At 02:44 PM 7/7/2008, Paul wrote:
>> Also my 82571 NIC supports multiple received queues and multiple 
>> transmit queues so why hasn't
>> anyone written the driver to support this?  It's not a 10gb card and 
>> it still supports it and it's widely
>
>
> Intel actually maintains the driver. Not sure if there are plans or 
> not, but perhaps they can comment ?
>
>         ---Mike