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From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.12 Performance problems
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 15:10:26 -0400
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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