Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 19:55:39 +0200 From: Olaf Hoyer <ohoyer@nightfire.de> To: Jin Guojun (DSD staff) <jin@george.lbl.gov> Cc: Ronald.vanderPol@surfnet.nl, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 1000Base-SX card recommendation? Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20001019195539.00911740@post.strato.de> In-Reply-To: <200010162332.e9GNWEF15630@portnoy.lbl.gov>
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At 16:32 16.10.00 -0700, DSD staff wrote: >> Which 1000Base-SX PCI card can you recommend for highest throughput? > >If you potentially use jumbo frame, all 1000Base-SX PCI card can have >similar throughput (to maximum speed). >But, NetGear is almost a half price of the SysKonnect. > >For standard 1500 MTU, SysKonnect can go 900Mbps, and NetGear goes about >650Mbps. Remember that a 64-bit PCI slot is required. Hi! Aren't the Netgear's autosensing? Had some GA620T (the CAT5 variant) there for testing, and it autosensed 32/64 bit. (Ok, had some probs in an Alpha with an IRQ above 16) Regards Olaf Hoyer To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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