From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 4 10:14:47 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 499AE16A4DA for ; Mon, 4 Sep 2006 10:14:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8358943D66 for ; Mon, 4 Sep 2006 10:14:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i27so1829128wxd for ; Mon, 04 Sep 2006 03:14:40 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=L62GgAgVQT40tmBUAL0nbbscwZ/QC1qh2LdF9J6F1LhiyBPhIF2xhAxHSCta6JXUP5a8x8RNGd97xrWp6Tj/3q79670XkkIIlx1C+Uolz/mDaFvspC4uQfjqaGDwIVxQMs44Xwa4C/yT1I2FDp3ifgEmrZ7tIXw+UWQ6DI4bqlo= Received: by 10.70.122.13 with SMTP id u13mr7375883wxc; Mon, 04 Sep 2006 03:14:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.70.49.3 with HTTP; Mon, 4 Sep 2006 03:14:40 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2006 05:14:40 -0500 From: "Nikolas Britton" To: "Brett Glass" In-Reply-To: <7.0.1.0.2.20060903161335.0989f158@lariat.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <7.0.1.0.2.20060903161335.0989f158@lariat.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best gigabit network interface for FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2006 10:14:47 -0000 On 9/3/06, Brett Glass wrote: > Was going to post this to net@, but figured I'd get a bigger > audience and better answers on this list. (Please copy responses to > me as well as the list to make sure I see them.) > > I'm building a machine which is going to have very high network > loads, but can't really use a TCP/IP "accelerator" because much of > the traffic won't be TCP. What, as of now, is the most capable > gigabit Ethernet interface for FreeBSD? Which has the cleanest, > simplest driver? The most onboard buffer space to prevent overruns > and underruns? The fastest bus interface? The least interrupt > overhead (important because interrupts in FreeBSD 6.x are > relatively expensive)? I have some Intel "em" interfaces available > to me, but have been told that while the driver is well supported > they are quirky and not the best choice. > Stay away from cards with a Marvell or RealTek chip. -- BSD Podcasts @: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ http://freebsdforall.blogspot.com/