On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 09:47:42PM +0100, Jabe wrote: > Technologies MT25204 [InfiniHost III Lx HCA]; and dual E5430 xeon > (not nehalem). Newer Mellanox cards have most of the offloads you see for ethernet so they get better performance. Plus > Nehalem is just better at TCP in the first place.. Jason