Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 14:34:22 +0100 From: Frank Bonnet <f.bonnet@esiee.fr> To: Nathan Vidican <nvidican@wmptl.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NIC driver question Message-ID: <4563005E.7010807@esiee.fr> In-Reply-To: <4562FD87.1080105@wmptl.com> References: <4562CF3D.1070203@esiee.fr> <4562FD87.1080105@wmptl.com>
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Nathan Vidican wrote: > Frank Bonnet wrote: >> Hello >> >> I will receive in few days my new mail server the machine will >> be an IBM X3650 bi xeon. >> >> I wonder what would be the "best" network interface to >> plug in (if necessary) as I don't know for now what is >> the builtin interfaces in this machine. >> >> To be clear I'm asking gurus on what is the "best FreeBSD supported" >> NIC driver to avoid eventual perfomances problems. >> >> Thanks a lot. > As for 100mbit cards: > > Hands-down, Intel 'fxp'-driven cards... rock solid in terms of > performance and stability; never had a single unit go bad, used hundreds > of them, including dual and quad-port cards. > > On the gigabit side: > > I've had great luck with broadcom cards using the 'bge' driver, and a > few intel cards utilizing the 'em', but nothing real extensive or > saturated enough to authoratively say they work under extreme pressure > or anything. I've got a couple of dual-opteron servers here with dual > on-board broadcom gigabit cards that have ben running flawlessly for > over 2 years now, (uptime 378 days on one, the others were rebooted > several weeks ago to be relocated to a different rack). Knock-on-wood, > no panics or mysterious network outages as of yet - so I'd say they're > fairly stable - but again, never end up near saturated over here to give > you an answer on performance. > > Anyhow, just my two cents - if you don't need gigabit, ya can't go wrong > with Intel 'fxp'-driven cards :) > OK thank you Nathan I'll need the gigabit X 2 as we extensively use the imap protocol ( 500 , 600 imap processes during work hours ) thanks for your feedback -- Cordialement Frank Bonnet
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