Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 14 Sep 2007 17:37:15 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: In search of 10gbps cards/shootout in Linux? | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Bill Fink <billfink@mindspring.com> Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 00:02:50 -0400
> I haven't done any comparisons with other vendor offerings, but I can > highly recommend the Myricom PCI-Express (8x) 10-GigE NICs. They only > cost about $900 and can do full unidirectional 10-GigE line rate. And > as a 10-GigE router, they can do full bidirectional 10-GigE line rate > IP forwarding. Note the choice of system/motherboard/CPU is as > important as the choice of NIC in achieving maximum performance.
The only thing I don't like about the myri10ge cards is that they lack VLAN offloading in hardware.
Strangely this appears to be common amongst 10gb parts :-/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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