From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Oct 19 10:49:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from post.webmailer.de (natmail2.webmailer.de [192.67.198.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EA7537B4C5 for ; Thu, 19 Oct 2000 10:49:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wuerg (hmbdi6-212-144-144-018.arcor-ip.net [212.144.144.18]) by post.webmailer.de (8.9.3/8.8.7) with SMTP id TAA02253; Thu, 19 Oct 2000 19:49:15 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.20001019195539.00911740@post.strato.de> X-Sender: webmaster%nightfire.de@post.strato.de X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 19:55:39 +0200 To: Jin Guojun (DSD staff) From: Olaf Hoyer Subject: Re: 1000Base-SX card recommendation? Cc: Ronald.vanderPol@surfnet.nl, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <200010162332.e9GNWEF15630@portnoy.lbl.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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