`<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 8:51 AM, Matthew Lagoe <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:matthew.lagoe@subrigo.net" target="_blank">matthew.lagoe@subrigo.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">The intel cards are nice but they don't have any cx4 cards so we don't use<br>
them. Copper connections have less latency on short links then fiber as you<br>
don't have the electric to optical conversion (when done properly)<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>On short links (< 20M) twin-ax copper SFP+ are much more economical and lower latency than optics. I would only use optics and fiber if I have long runs. <br><br></div><div>-Chip<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Sent: Saturday, March 28, 2015 07:40 AM<br>
To: Doug Hughes<br>
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Subject: Re: [OmniOS-discuss] best or preferred 10g card for OmniOS<br>
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> On Mar 26, 2015, at 9:24 AM, Doug Hughes <<a href="mailto:doug@will.to" target="_blank">doug@will.to</a>> wrote:<br>
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> any recommendations? We're having some pretty big problems with the<br>
Solarflare card and driver dropping network under high load. We eliminated<br>
LACP as a culprit, and the switch.<br>
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> Intel? Chelsio? other?<br>
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I've been running exclusively Intel for several years now. It gets the most<br>
attention in the illumos community.<br>
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-- richard<br>
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> - Doug<br>
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