FreeBSD bind performance in FreeBSD 7

[Mike Tancsa]

At 03:52 AM 3/3/2008, Thomas Krause (Webmatic) wrote:

>>Pyun YongHyeon has fixed a lot of driver issues (i.e. re(4), bfr(4), vr(4))
>>over the last few months, many are already in CURRENT or RELENG_7 (not
>>sure how many of them made it into 7.0-RELEASE) or posted as patches
>>to the current@ mailing list.
>
>My question is: which other PCI-Express GBit NIC's then Intel's are
>available on the market? I can't find others ...

I have used a few bge nics that are PCIe.... However, I suggest stick 
with the Intel for now.

My home box has a PCIe bge nic. It works fine for my home server on 
RELENG_7 (Samba, nfs).

bge0 at pci0:2:0:0:        class=0x020000 card=0x167714e4 
chip=0x167714e4 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
     vendor     = 'Broadcom Corporation'
     device     = 'BCM5750A1 NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express'
     class      = network
     subclass   = ethernet
     cap 01[48] = powerspec 2  supports D0 D3  current D0
     cap 03[50] = VPD
     cap 05[58] = MSI supports 8 messages, 64 bit
     cap 10[d0] = PCI-Express 1 endpoint
bge0: <HPQ 10/100/1000 Copper Based Gigabit Adapter, ASIC rev. 
0x4001> mem 0xfddf0000-0xfddfffff irq 18 at device 0.0 on pci2
miibus0: <MII bus> on bge0
brgphy0: <BCM5750 10/100/1000baseTX PHY> PHY 1 on miibus0
brgphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseT, 
1000baseT-FDX, auto
bge0: Ethernet address: 00:10:18:14:15:43
bge0: [ITHREAD]

         ---Mike