Choosing two 10GiGE cards

[Jack Vogel]

If you really want to make the switch to 10G I would also seriously consider
moving to
FreeBSD 8,  the changes that have been made in the stack will help  you get
the most
out of the hardware.

When it comes to Intel hardware the model Andrew cites is the CX4 version of
the 82598, you
can also get it in fiber. The next gen mac, 82599, is out, but I am not sure
how easily they are
obtainable in the channels yet. My ixgbe driver supports both, the 599 will
have some advantages,
I am just about ready to release the latest driver that will now have
Hardware LRO among other
enhancements.

I believe Dell and Supermicro will, or already have i7 servers with a couple
of these as LOMs.

Thanks for the plug btw Andrew!

Jack


On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 10:42 PM, Andrew Snow <andrew at modulus.org> wrote:

> rihad wrote:
>
>> The only one worth getting IMO is Intel EXPX9502CX4
>>> (INTEL 10 GIGABIT CX4 DUAL PORT SERVER ADAPTER)
>>>
>>
>  Thanks. What does DUAL PORT mean? It has two jacks? I think one such
>> adapter will be more than enough to replace our two 1000 mbps cards, whether
>> two jacks or not?
>>
>
> Correct, it has two ports on the one card. It uses a PCIe x8 slot so plenty
> of bandwidth to serve two ports.
>
> - Andrew
>
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