On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 03:32:05PM -0800, nate wrote: > Les Mikesell wrote: > > > Are there good 10Gb cards/drivers for the linux side? > > My NAS vendor has deployed many systems with Chelsio 10GbE cards > in the field, say they are good. > > http://www.chelsio.com/products_10g_adapters.html > http://service.chelsio.com/ <- drivers/etc > > I have a friend who does 10GbE iSCSI testing for Broadcom, he > recently started testing iSCSI offload for Broadcom/Linux, while > the iSCSI(offload) stuff isn't quite so solid yet the regular > 10GbE stuff is. I think for the most part Broadcom stuff is > OEM these days. > Interesting. Do you know how big CPU usage difference there is offloaded vs. non-offloaded? 10 Gbit iSCSI is very interesting :) > Intel recently launched a low power 10GbaseT adapter(2nd or > 3rd generation), I haven't heard much about it but my general > experience with Intel GbE NICs has been positive > > http://www.intel.com/Products/Server/Adapters/10GbE_AT/10GbE_AT-overview.htm > This seems to based on the older 82598 chipset. 82599 is the newest Intel 10 Gbit chipset. -- Pasi