anything better than the em(4)?

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From: Kapetanakis Giannis
Date: Saturday, February 20, 2010 - 8:48 am

Hello,

It has been suggested here that em(4) should give good network 
performance on gigabit networks .
(http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=126605109632029&w=2).
Does this include only the non-Intels on the man page (if there is such 
thing there)?

I was thinking to get my hands on an Intel PRO/1000 PT for routing/pf 
till I read this on your site:
http://www.openbsd.org/crypto.html#hardware

"Forget about Intel. (If you want to buy gigabit ethernet hardware, we 
recommend anything else... for the same reason: most drivers we have for 
Intel networking hardware were written without documentation)."

Does Intel still not provide appropriate documentation or did that web 
page expire?
Is there any other brand/driver which should be considered (more) 
optimal in terms of performance+stability for openbsd routers on gigabit 
networks?

best regards,

Giannis
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anything better than the em(4)?, Kapetanakis Giannis, (Sat Feb 20, 8:48 am)
Re: anything better than the em(4)?, Henning Brauer, (Mon Feb 22, 5:56 am)
Re: anything better than the em(4)?, Claudio Jeker, (Mon Feb 22, 6:48 am)
Re: anything better than the em(4)?, Kapetanakis Giannis, (Mon Feb 22, 7:06 am)