Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:30:23 +0900 From: gnn@freebsd.org To: Aristedes Maniatis <ari@ish.com.au> Cc: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 10GbE speeds Message-ID: <m2k5iytfxs.wl%gnn@neville-neil.com> In-Reply-To: <15A6FBF6-052E-486D-9470-CAE5819BE93F@ish.com.au> References: <5873E91C-C096-4EE1-A5F5-4BCE110E2EE7@ish.com.au> <m2mynvuvl2.wl%gnn@neville-neil.com> <15A6FBF6-052E-486D-9470-CAE5819BE93F@ish.com.au>
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At Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:02:33 +1000, Aristedes Maniatis wrote: > > > On 15/04/2008, at 10:54 PM, gnn@freebsd.org wrote: > > I am working with the Chelsio hardware and it seems to be well > > supported on FreeBSD. All the machines in that system are FreeBSD > > though. How do you intend to get the OSX systems to be 10GE? > > > What sort of throughput are you getting with that setup? Are you using > NFS between the systems? I haven't done any performance testing of bandwidth as yet and we are not using these for NFS. > Good question about OSX, and I hadn't got to that part yet :-) But I > was hoping that some OSX drivers existed. My fail back plan is to > put 3 x 1GbE NICs into the server and just use crossover cable > between the 3 workstations and the server to avoid any contention > within the ethernet network. I think you want either a pure 10GbE network or a pure 1GbE network because my understanding is that 10GbE switches have issues with mixed links. I have not tested that first hand yet though. Best, George
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