Good gigabit NIC for 4.11?

Rink Springer rink at il.fontys.nl
Fri Dec 23 14:33:26 PST 2005


> 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 ...

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