Opinions on "best" NIC for high-touch applications

"." at babolo.ru "." at babolo.ru
Mon Apr 26 19:44:32 PDT 2004


> At Wed, 21 Apr 2004 09:36:45 -0700 (PDT),
> Chance Whaley wrote:
> > I have an application where I am doing quite a bit of high-touch packet
> > fiddling and I am looking for opinions on which "standard" Gb NIC
> > has the best driver support in 5.2 or CURRENT.
> > 
> > In my dream world I am looking for something that supports:
> > 	- IRQ mitigation / polling (absolute must)
> > 	- PCI-X   (absolute must)
> > 	- HW checksumming
> > 	- Scatter / Gather
> > 	- IPsec
> > 	- Jumbo frames
> > 	- VLANs
> > 
> > Thoughts??
> > 
> 
> I think you want the Netear Copper Gigiabit Adapter (GA302T) which is
> well supported in 5.x.
> 
> I don't know if it supports all that you want, but you should check it
> out at least.  The driver is if_bge.c.
PR kern/61109




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