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Stuart Stegall said: |
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> Let's see. I believe Dell switched to Broadcom NIC components, because |
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> of reliability issues with the Intel components, but PCI-X cards are |
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> different beasts, plus if one breaks you just swap the card (provided |
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> you have all the kernel and userland in place to handle that) As to the |
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> slightly separate issue of performance. I have seen several "Windows" |
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> based performance comparisons between the two and Broadcom always came |
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> out on top. But driver performance differences between Linux, BSDs, and |
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> Windows vary pretty considerably. YMMV. |
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Most of the information I've seen on this topic has come from the OpenBSD |
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community. The fxp cards like Intel PRO/100s and such are recommended |
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almost exclusively over other cards. This of course is considering the |
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matter of drivers, because it may be that the OpenBSD fxp(4) driver helps |
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the interface to be that much more robust. |
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I have to say though, I've never heard of any sort of problems in the |
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Intel cards themselves, such that I would understand why Dell would have |
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switched to Broadcoms... |
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Anyone know of a reliable resource online that could shed some light on |
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this question? |
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