Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 20:31:39 +0200 (CEST) From: "Julien Gabel" <jpeg@thilelli.net> To: sean@mcneil.com Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org, Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> Subject: Re: realtek performance (was Re: good ATI chipset results) Message-ID: <62071.192.168.1.20.1129228299.squirrel@webmail.thilelli.net> In-Reply-To: <200510131149.24411.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <6.2.3.4.0.20051013090818.07a5c9a0@64.7.153.2> <1129216390.8681.6.camel@server.mcneil.com> <200510131149.24411.jhb@freebsd.org>
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> On Thursday 13 October 2005 11:13 am, Sean McNeil wrote: >> On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 09:17 -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote: >>> Havent really seen anyone else use this board, but I have had good >>> luck with it so far >>> >>> http://www.ecs.com.tw/ECSWeb/Products/ProductsDetail.aspx?DetailID=506&MenuID=90&LanID=0 >>> >>> Its a micro ATX formfactor with built in video and the onboard NIC is >>> a realtek. (Although its not the fastest NIC, its driver is stable >>> and mature-- especially compared to the headaches people seem to have >>> with the NVIDIA NICs.) I just want to say that there is some discussion in the past about the RealTek 8169S - not on amd64 plateform though (x86) - but it seems not so stable in all configuration. See the ml archives for references, and the PR kern/80005. >> Is this the RealTek 8169S Single-chip Gigabit Ethernet? >> >> For those interested, here are some changes I always use to increase the >> performance of the above NIC. With these mods, I can stream over 20 >> MBps video multicast and do other stuff over the network without issues. >> Without the changes, xmit is horrible with severe UDP packet loss. -- -jpeg.
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