Re: Opinions on "best" NIC for high-touch applications

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Date: 04/27/04

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    To: "George V. Neville-Neil" <gnn@neville-neil.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 06:44:20 +0400 (MSD)

    > 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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