Re: NIC / driver performance with libpcap

[Fabian Schneider <schneifa () net in tum de>]

Hi,

> If such a list does not exist, I'd be happy to collate whatever information
> available.

As I don't know such a list, I just tell what i know. By the way, which 
link layer technology are we talking about? And, I cannot say anything for 
Solaris.

For 1-GigEthernet my experience shows that the intel cards are working 
quite well. You do not want to use cheaper ones like e.g. Netgear those at 
least were not able to process a fully loaded link and then the driver 
crashed. Sysconnect cards are as well working ok, though to as fast as the 
intels. By the way you want to enable NAPI for Linux.

For 10-GigEthernet i heard (no own experience) that the Neterion Cards are 
good. Those are available in a special Solaris version as well. 


   bye
   Fabian Schneider

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