From owner-freebsd-net Fri Aug 23 8: 9:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5017437B400 for ; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 08:09:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from exchange.epx.com (exchange.epx.com [128.121.22.246]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E36943E42 for ; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 08:09:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd@epx.com) Received: from ux340prd.epx.com (ux340prd.epx.com [192.168.12.94]) by exchange.epx.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g7NF9ebo005777 for ; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 11:09:40 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from freebsd@epx.com) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" From: freebsd To: net@freebsd.org Subject: 100mb Nic w/ built in receive buffers, or driver/ifconfig tweaks? Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 11:09:40 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.4] Organization: epx.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200208231109.40050.freebsd@epx.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I would like to know, and hope those that have worked with NIC drivers mi= ght=20 be able to tell me, if there are any commodity NIC cards that have onboar= d=20 receive buffers and are well suited to receiving lots and lots of traffic= =2E The application is SNORT on FreeBSD 4.6, so the traffic is all receive, t= here=20 is no IP assigned to this NIC card. And are there any other recommendations that anyone has on tweaking for l= arge=20 amounts of receive traffic, no xmit traffic. In a one hour this am, this interface received 1,816,114,954 bytes in=20 1,354,840 packets, and shows 15 Ierrs Also, would doing minor changes such as disabling ARP on this nic help th= ings? TIA for any help on this. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message