Welcome toasters,
I must say I'm pretty disappointed with gigabit. Having ATM OC3 in filer and OC12 in Solaris 2.6 I was getting 12MB/s read. After installing gigabit cards in both it is now max 15MB/s -- I was rather expecting more than 30MB/s. UDP/TCP no matter (well, TCP is a bit slower), rsize and wsize are 32k, so is xfersize.
I start to seriously consider buying OC12 for filer and use it for (more or less) back to back connection with that Sun, which might seem to be more effective. (I'll try to get such card for testing, though.)
Gigabit in Sun is SunGigabit, in filer is GbE-II in slot 8 (e8: GbE-II is self-configuring - mediatype ignored, so I cannot disable negotation, like I used to in FE).
I'm waiting for Sun GigaSwift and perhaps GbE-III, but don't know if it's going to help.
Any pieces of advice, perhaps?
p.
PS Sun processors are 4x450MHz, latest Solaris/GbE patches applied, filer is 740 with 6.2.1