From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 29 09:43:01 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A506B57 for ; Mon, 29 Jul 2013 09:43:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gerrit.kuehn@aei.mpg.de) Received: from umail.aei.mpg.de (umail.aei.mpg.de [194.94.224.6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B26282A1C for ; Mon, 29 Jul 2013 09:43:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mailgate.aei.mpg.de (mailgate.aei.mpg.de [194.94.224.5]) by umail.aei.mpg.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id B32F6200B84; Mon, 29 Jul 2013 11:36:50 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mailgate.aei.mpg.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id A69E6405889; Mon, 29 Jul 2013 11:36:50 +0200 (CEST) Received: from intranet.aei.uni-hannover.de (ahin1.aei.uni-hannover.de [130.75.117.40]) by mailgate.aei.mpg.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 895CF406AF1; Mon, 29 Jul 2013 11:36:50 +0200 (CEST) Received: from cascade.aei.uni-hannover.de ([130.75.117.3]) by intranet.aei.uni-hannover.de (Lotus Domino Release 8.5.3) with ESMTP id 2013072911363990-16311 ; Mon, 29 Jul 2013 11:36:39 +0200 Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 11:36:40 +0200 From: Gerrit =?ISO-8859-1?Q?K=FChn?= To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recommendations for 10gbps NIC Message-Id: <20130729113640.cc41eb14.gerrit.kuehn@aei.mpg.de> In-Reply-To: <1374876857.42890.YahooMailNeo@web121603.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> References: <51F0386D.2000709@acm.poly.edu> <51F16A07.9030505@FreeBSD.org> <1374852658.90079.YahooMailNeo@web121601.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> <51F2A313.9070105@FreeBSD.org> <1374876857.42890.YahooMailNeo@web121603.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Organization: Max Planck Gesellschaft X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.1.3 (GTK+ 2.24.6; amd64-portbld-freebsd8.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-MIMETrack: Itemize by SMTP Server on intranet/aei-hannover(Release 8.5.3|September 15, 2011) at 07/29/2013 11:36:39, Serialize by Router on intranet/aei-hannover(Release 8.5.3|September 15, 2011) at 07/29/2013 11:36:50, Serialize complete at 07/29/2013 11:36:50 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-PMX-Version: 6.0.2.2308539, Antispam-Engine: 2.7.2.2107409, Antispam-Data: 2013.7.29.92726 X-PerlMx-Spam: Gauge=IIIIIIII, Probability=8%, Report=' HTML_00_01 0.05, HTML_00_10 0.05, MIME_LOWER_CASE 0.05, BODYTEXTP_SIZE_3000_LESS 0, BODY_SIZE_1000_LESS 0, BODY_SIZE_2000_LESS 0, BODY_SIZE_400_499 0, BODY_SIZE_5000_LESS 0, BODY_SIZE_7000_LESS 0, ECARD_KNOWN_DOMAINS 0, __ANY_URI 0, __BOUNCE_CHALLENGE_SUBJ 0, __BOUNCE_NDR_SUBJ_EXEMPT 0, __CT 0, __CTE 0, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN 0, __FRAUD_BODY_WEBMAIL 0, __FRAUD_WEBMAIL 0, __HAS_FROM 0, __HAS_MSGID 0, __HAS_X_MAILER 0, __IN_REP_TO 0, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, __SANE_MSGID 0, __SUBJ_ALPHA_END 0, __SUBJ_ALPHA_NEGATE 0, __TO_MALFORMED_2 0, __TO_NO_NAME 0, __URI_NO_PATH 0, __URI_NO_WWW 0, __URI_NS ' Cc: Barney Cordoba X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 09:43:01 -0000 On Fri, 26 Jul 2013 15:14:17 -0700 (PDT) Barney Cordoba wrote about Re: Recommendations for 10gbps NIC: BC> I don't really understand why nearly all 10GBE cards are dual-port. BC> Surely there is a market for NICs between 1 gigabit and 20 gigabit. Myricom has single port 10G cards. However, I only use them on Linux and cannot comment on FreeBSD usage here. cu Gerrit