Re: recommendation NIC w/flow control frames

[Jake Peavy <djstunks () gmail com>]

On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 9:43 PM, Andrej van der Zee <
andrejvanderzee () gmail com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We are about to buy NICs for sniffing networks by means of port-mirroring
> on a PC running Linux/Ubuntu. Unfortunately we are not sure yet about the
> network throughput that we will have to support. We would like to start
> looking for a 10 Gigabit/sec NIC costing around 250 USD. Moreover, we are
> not sure about specific NIC-options we should look out for which might
> further reduce packet drops (such as the various offload-options). Hopefully
> somebody out there could provide us with more information!

Hi, sorry to piggy back here but I have the same question (NIC
recommendation) but with a different requirement - I want to be able to
see/capture Ethernet Flow Control frames with Wireshark.  Apparently most
cards operate on flow control in hardware and never pass the information
[1].

So my question is if anyone has a NIC recommendation that will allow flow
control analysis?

[1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.tcpdump.devel/2054

Tks,

-- 
-jp

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