From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 27 11:40:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA20212 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 11:40:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from webserver.smginc.com (webserver.smginc.com [204.170.176.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA20202 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 11:40:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from AdamT@smginc.com) Received: from smginc.com ([204.170.177.4]) by webserver.smginc.com (post.office MTA v2.0 0813 ID# 0-13723) with SMTP id AAA193 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 14:41:52 -0500 Received: by smginc.com with Microsoft Mail id <34CE61E6@smginc.com>; Tue, 27 Jan 98 14:38:30 PST From: Adam Turoff To: freebsd-hackers Subject: RE: Gigabit ethernet cards for FreeBSD? Date: Tue, 27 Jan 98 14:38:00 PST Message-ID: <34CE61E6@smginc.com> X-Mailer: Microsoft Mail V3.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk >Just wondering if there are any for FreeBSD , how they perform and how > much they cost? Don't have much FreeBSD specific info, but I remember reading an article within the last 2 weeks about Gigabit NICs, and the results were rather interesting. WebWeek perhaps? Sunworld? They tested about 3 NICs on platforms that could run 2 OSes - AlphaServers for NT/DecUNIX, etc. I remember the average throughput was around 400Mbit, with the high water mark being 600Mbit for Irix (?) doing UDP. All in all, the NT tests were rather lame seemed to hover around 200Mbit. Obviously a problem in the networking stack. :-) Some of these cards were PCI, so it's only a case of driver support for FreeBSD, and of course cost. HTH, -- Adam.