Michael Heiming wrote:
>
> In comp.os.linux.networking John-Paul Stewart <jpstewart@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> > "Craig E. Smith" wrote:
> > >
> > > I'm looking for thoughts on the best NIC card to use for a Linux
> > > router implementation. I am concerned with CPU utilization. I have
> > > read that some cards support scatter/gather and interrupt mitigation.
> > > Thanks for your help.
>
> > I've never seen CPU utilization be a problem except at Gigabit speeds.
> > Unless you're creating a very high-end router or have very limited CPU
> > resources the bottleneck will lie elsewhere, IMHO.
>
> On aside note, have you tried out enabling jumbo frames with GB
> NICs?

My switch doesn't support jumbo frames. (So *that's* why an 8 port GigE
switch was so cheap!) I did try it once anyway...the network just plain
died.