AMD 64bit-powered Network performance

Dave Stubbs dave.stubbs-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org
Tue May 2 18:42:32 UTC 2006


With lspci, the NIC shows up as:

Intel Corporation 82541GI/PI Gigabit Ethernet Controller

There are a lot of 8111 devices, but this one doesn't seem to be part of 
that.

Quite possible that it is PCIe though, although none of the slots on 
this board are.

Dave...

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 12:20:03PM -0400, Dave Stubbs wrote:
>   
>> Interestingly, the Tyan NIC was PCI, but the other two were PCI-X
>>     
>
> Isn't the NIC on the tyan part of the amd 8111 chipset and hence
> internal to the system and while maybe presented as pci, probably is at
> least running 66mhz if not faster PCI internally?  Some newer systems
> probably use PCIe for the onboard network chip.
>
> Len Sorensen
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