From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Sep 6 12:31:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76CF137B401 for ; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 12:31:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from spork.pantherdragon.org (spork.pantherdragon.org [206.29.168.146]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8E6B43E7B for ; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 12:31:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dmp@pantherdragon.org) Received: from sparx.techno.pagans (evrtwa1-ar10-4-61-252-069.evrtwa1.dsl-verizon.net [4.61.252.69]) by spork.pantherdragon.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 009F710091; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 12:31:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pantherdragon.org (speck.techno.pagans [172.21.42.2]) by sparx.techno.pagans (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15012AA92; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 12:31:43 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3D79029E.ED8020EF@pantherdragon.org> Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2002 12:31:42 -0700 From: Darren Pilgrim X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Terry Lambert Cc: Dan Ellard , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gigabit NIC of choice? References: <3D78E69C.4152CC8@mindspring.com> <3D78F17F.5BE2499B@pantherdragon.org> <3D78FD1E.EAA7ABD7@mindspring.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thank you! It was fun to watch questions come up and get shot down while reading the same email. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go use the source, Terry. Terry Lambert wrote: > Darren Pilgrim wrote: > > Terry Lambert wrote: > > > Dan Ellard wrote: > > > > What's the gigabit ethernet NIC of choice these days? (I've had good > > > > experiences with the NetGear G620T, but apparently this card is no > > > > longer being sold.) > > > > > > The Tigon II has the best performances, but that's because > > > software people rewrote the firmware, instead of hardware > > > engineers moonlighting as programmers. 8-) 8-). > > > > I recall from a while back that gigabit cards have "relatively" large > > caches on them, correct? How does the size of the cache impact > > performance, and what is considered a sufficient cache size? > > The best advice I have for you is to read the source code for > the drivers, specifically any commentary by Bill Paul up top; > he tells it like it is, with regard to the hardware. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message