Re: Fibre Gig card recommendations?

From: Thomas Hurst (tom.hurst_at_clara.net)
Date: 06/25/05

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    Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 04:45:06 +0100
To: Arkadi Shishlov <arkadi@mebius.lv>

    * Arkadi Shishlov (arkadi@mebius.lv) wrote:

    > > I use the em cards (Intel Pro 1000/MT's and the like) in many
    > > machines here, and they are rock solid. You'll pay a little more
    > > for them, but there is a reason for it.
    >
    > Whats about performance and stability with MTU > 1500? I tried
    > increasing MTU on my Intel-made servers to speed-up NFS, but both
    > 5.3 em and 2.x Intel provided drivers get stuck after some time with
    > interface in OACTIVE state.

    I've been using MTU=9014 for a while now without problems, aside from
    the odd glitch with autonegotiation. Switch is an SMC 8505T, using both
    WinXP and FreeBSD 5 drivers. 

    -- 
Thomas 'Freaky' Hurst
    http://hur.st/
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