From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Nov 28 20: 6:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from imo-r04.mx.aol.com (imo-r04.mx.aol.com [152.163.225.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D27C37B417 for ; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 20:06:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from Nyteckjobs@aol.com by imo-r04.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v31_r1.9.) id 4.3f.27ef171 (25307); Wed, 28 Nov 2001 23:06:24 -0500 (EST) From: Nyteckjobs@aol.com Message-ID: <3f.27ef171.29370e3f@aol.com> Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 23:06:23 EST Subject: Re: Intel gigabit driver To: jlemon@flugsvamp.com Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Windows sub 138 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In a message dated 11/28/01 8:33:55 PM Eastern Standard Time, jlemon@flugsvamp.com writes: > >The 'gx' driver was committed so that Jonathan's code would be on > >record, since he'd spent so much time and effort on it. Testing so > >far has indicated that the Intel driver is generally superior, but > > No, sorry. Testing has shown no such thing; the performance of > the drivers is equivalent, or even that gx has a slight edge. > > > >The Intel driver will be the preferred driver for these cards. > > That still is under discussion. For the record, the "intel" driver for eepro for Linux is a piece of crap (in that it can be locked up on demand), and they seem to have no interest in making it bulletproof. So just because Intel provides it doesnt mean its good or better than anything else around. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message