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<P><FONT SIZE=2>The other aspect is jumbo frame support which is important to people optimizing for nfs throughput. Not all broadcom onboard nics support that.<BR>
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Michael<BR>
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From: Chris Samuel [<A HREF="mailto:csamuel@vpac.org">mailto:csamuel@vpac.org</A>]<BR>
Sent: Wed Nov 15 07:23:40 2006<BR>
To: beowulf@beowulf.org<BR>
Subject: Re: [Beowulf] onboard Gb lan: any opinion, sugestion or impression?<BR>
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On Tuesday 14 November 2006 08:26, Jones de Andrade wrote:<BR>
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> We came to a question here, in the cluster we are planning: how usefull are<BR>
> the, now so common, onboard gigabit networks (even dual networks) that are<BR>
> shipped in the motherboards?<BR>
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The only question I'd come across in the past was if you had Broadcom cards<BR>
should you use the mainline tg3 driver or the Broadcom bcm57xx drivers (which<BR>
were also GPL IIRC).<BR>
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However, these days Broadcom have discontinued their bcm drivers and recommend<BR>
people use the mainline tg3.<BR>
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cheers!<BR>
Chris<BR>
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