From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 9 05:26:40 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4161E106566B for ; Sat, 9 Jun 2012 05:26:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kob6558@gmail.com) Received: from mail-we0-f182.google.com (mail-we0-f182.google.com [74.125.82.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7C7E8FC12 for ; Sat, 9 Jun 2012 05:26:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: by werg1 with SMTP id g1so1252563wer.13 for ; Fri, 08 Jun 2012 22:26:39 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=p92Ig+BF9O+lwUYRS92c79I29ThidrDCzijb8+C/uk0=; b=ccs11/fHI3zOw+mDHANNwqj1zQKkr0ambMaNy1+b8vUOyJOOeMzexWqbymBG7pgqHQ 7tbZwxUImvpAaByiRaOuXkxRXLvEcTwnD/CI4QQfcqp5GF/+oDKXnc5p2+IdU03o9Wwn bDG/Ek/ZhQoMTXQdqRtSfryhw8csZUQh1zQo+J5Cr0b1CaPJaB6ME9ueguFbQNOTj+n7 jObt7osyT6I8b3Gzt9k9APowaI6jXZGY/N7QQ6sQNp6aIXbgutWqL5dhf6a7e5QUOH06 G7r9o0/2MZLqmtN+UvN8MrND370NjgZ7XVd7cIVwkFJNLm0zVtyt1WU7BcV9dy0N7Ksj F3JA== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.180.79.166 with SMTP id k6mr5663527wix.8.1339219598916; Fri, 08 Jun 2012 22:26:38 -0700 (PDT) Sender: kob6558@gmail.com Received: by 10.223.155.4 with HTTP; Fri, 8 Jun 2012 22:26:38 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2012 22:26:38 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: luUBj1g8tpMD8ujjOxX6isOY_nY Message-ID: From: Kevin Oberman To: Daniel Braniss Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: recommended 10g cards X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2012 05:26:40 -0000 On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 11:54 PM, Daniel Braniss wrote= : > Hi > I will be 'experimenting' with 10g in the next few months, so > I need to buy =A0some cards, > After googling for some time, I noticed that there is not realy much real > info, and some of it is a bit dated. > Since these cards are pricy, could those that have such cards share some = info? > cheers, We use Myricom cards in our 10G network test systems and they have worked out quite well. We are able to drive TCP to over 9Gbs and do US to Austrailia disk to disk transfers at over 5 Gbps. Myricom does the FreeBSD drivers and is active in the FreeBSD community. -- R. Kevin Oberman - Network Engineer rkoberman@gmail.com