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New Full TOE cards?
I recently setup a OpenBSD bridging firewall to protect an area of the
network.
I'm limited to about 40MB per second throughput due to small frame tcp/ip
issues.
I'd like to up it.
I see my choices as either upping frame size (unlikely, large infrastructure
change) or using a full TOE implmentation ethernet card.

But I don't see any that are not specially Sun or MS (blech).

All TOE I see is partial, ie: just checksum offload. I want the smaller
packets to be aggregated before a kernel interrupt is kick off.

Anybody aware of any cards / drivers that will do what I want?

My OS preferences (in order) are OpenBSD, (FreeBSD|NetBSD), Linux (Debian,
then RH), and then Solaris.

Thanks.
New Ummm, Broadcom makes one...
But then... I know your preference is against Broadcom.

[link|http://www.sbei.com/index.php/products/tcpip/|http://www.sbei.com/...p/products/tcpip/]

How about that?
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New Don't care one way or another as far as Broadcom
Initial driver support was a nightmare, but that was years ago.
I'm currently using a 6 port Silicom nroadcom based card for my sniffer/ntop box.

Thanks.
New The corner has been turned
ONLY supporting Linux.
New Which card are you talking about?
The SBEI one? or which?
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New Yup, the one you pointed me to
     Full TOE cards? - (broomberg) - (5)
         Ummm, Broadcom makes one... - (folkert) - (4)
             Don't care one way or another as far as Broadcom - (broomberg) - (3)
                 The corner has been turned - (broomberg) - (2)
                     Which card are you talking about? - (folkert) - (1)
                         Yup, the one you pointed me to -NT - (broomberg)

Now listen closely, for here the plot does twist.
40 ms