Re: 2.6.12 Performance problems

Benjamin LaHaise
2005-08-26T19:10:52Z

On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 09:55:27AM -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
> Of course. Never found a motherboard yet with decent built-in
> NICs. The built-ins on this board are tg3 and they must be on
> a slow bus, because they cannot go faster than about 700Mbps
> (using big pkts).

There should be a number of decent boards out on the market these days.
Try picking up one with a CSA gige adapter (a dedicated high bandwidth
link to an e1000) or PCI Express (although that is harder to pick up on
from the specifications of most motherboards).

-ben