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Subject: Re: Choosing two 10GiGE cards
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Andrew Snow wrote:
> 
> The only one worth getting IMO is Intel EXPX9502CX4
> (INTEL 10 GIGABIT CX4 DUAL PORT SERVER ADAPTER)
> 
> It is low power and very fast, and works under FreeBSD.  Like all Intel 
> NICs It supports interrupt modulation so polling support isn't really 
> needed.
> 
> 
Thanks. What does DUAL PORT mean? It has two jacks? I think one such 
adapter will be more than enough to replace our two 1000 mbps cards, 
whether two jacks or not?