Re: NIC driver question

Nathan Vidican wrote:
Frank Bonnet wrote:
Hello

I will receive in few days my new mail server the machine will
be an IBM X3650 bi xeon.

I wonder what would be the "best" network interface to
plug in (if necessary) as I don't know for now what is
the builtin interfaces in this machine.

To be clear I'm asking gurus on what is the "best FreeBSD supported"
NIC driver to avoid eventual perfomances problems.

Thanks a lot.
As for 100mbit cards:

Hands-down, Intel 'fxp'-driven cards... rock solid in terms of performance and stability; never had a single unit go bad, used hundreds of them, including dual and quad-port cards.

On the gigabit side:

I've had great luck with broadcom cards using the 'bge' driver, and a few intel cards utilizing the 'em', but nothing real extensive or saturated enough to authoratively say they work under extreme pressure or anything. I've got a couple of dual-opteron servers here with dual on-board broadcom gigabit cards that have ben running flawlessly for over 2 years now, (uptime 378 days on one, the others were rebooted several weeks ago to be relocated to a different rack). Knock-on-wood, no panics or mysterious network outages as of yet - so I'd say they're fairly stable - but again, never end up near saturated over here to give you an answer on performance.

Anyhow, just my two cents - if you don't need gigabit, ya can't go wrong with Intel 'fxp'-driven cards :)


OK thank you Nathan

I'll need the gigabit X 2 as we extensively use the imap protocol
( 500 , 600 imap processes during work hours )

thanks for your feedback

--
Cordialement
Frank Bonnet
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