Re: Fibre Gig card recommendations?

From: Achim Patzner (ap_at_bnc.net)
Date: 06/25/05

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    To: "Arkadi Shishlov" <arkadi@mebius.lv>, <freebsd-performance@freebsd.org>
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 09:10:51 +0200

    From: "Arkadi Shishlov" <arkadi@mebius.lv>
    > 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.

    The same happened to us too, but I tracked it down to certain built-in NICs
    on Mainboards. I had good success with NatSemi NICs, too. Especially at even
    larger MTUs.

    Achim

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