From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 23 22:33:26 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EE9816A41F for ; Fri, 23 Dec 2005 22:33:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rink@charm.il.fontys.nl) Received: from mail.unilogicnetworks.net (mail-out.unilogicnetworks.net [62.133.192.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F231F43D49 for ; Fri, 23 Dec 2005 22:33:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rink@charm.il.fontys.nl) Received: from mail.il.fontys.nl (mx0.il.fontys.nl [194.26.13.7]) by mail.unilogicnetworks.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F147EF182; Fri, 23 Dec 2005 23:33:25 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.il.fontys.nl (Postfix/VSRI) with ESMTP id 7C2A617042; Fri, 23 Dec 2005 23:38:31 +0100 (CET) Received: from mail.il.fontys.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (sukke.il.fontys.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 94549-09; Fri, 23 Dec 2005 23:38:31 +0100 (CET) Received: from charm.il.fontys.nl (www.il.fontys.nl [IPv6:2001:4128:1000:1000::10]) by mail.il.fontys.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP; Fri, 23 Dec 2005 23:38:31 +0100 (CET) Received: by charm.il.fontys.nl (Postfix, from userid 1678) id 328B541CD; Fri, 23 Dec 2005 23:29:57 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 23:29:56 +0100 From: Rink Springer To: Charles Swiger Message-ID: <20051223222956.GB55809@il.fontys.nl> References: <20051223193237.GA80590@wrongcrowd.com> <20051223214718.GA55809@il.fontys.nl> <5B2BFA0C-B1D5-45A5-AC9C-74A29BCD3113@mac.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5B2BFA0C-B1D5-45A5-AC9C-74A29BCD3113@mac.com> X-Editor: Vim http://www.vim.org/ X-Info: http://rink.nu/ X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE i386 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at il.fontys.nl Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, Matt Staroscik Subject: Re: Good gigabit NIC for 4.11? X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 22:33:26 -0000 > backplane bus to handle that kinda bandwidth, whereas a consumer > grade motherboard where the GB NIC is hanging off the PCI bus rather > than being integrated into the northbridge is not going to do nearly > so well. Indeed, this is why I specifically said: desktop NIC's... my onboard bge(4)'s on a Tyan K8SE and onboard em(4)'s on an ASUS PCH-DR all get much higher performance than the so-called GB NICs on desktop boards. Gotta love marketing :) But I guess this is getting offtopic ... -- Rink P.W. Springer - http://rink.nu "Richter: Tribute? You steal men's souls, and make them your slaves! Dracula: Perhaps the same could be said of all religions." - Castlevania: Symphony of the Night