I'd appreciate any practical notes/recommendation/warnings on the following combination of hardware (and operating system drivers):
We're eyeing some 10Gb Eth adapter cards to be used in MacOS X on an Intel Mac. The two brands that seem to have drivers for the MacOS are Intel (3rd-party driver by Small Tree) and Myricom (own driver). We're planning to attach that to an existing Cisco Catalyst 3560-E series switch, via the X2 modules available from cisco: either metallic CX4 or the short-range 850nm multimode fibre.
Two questions:
1) do you have any experience with Myricom 10Gb against Cisco Catalyst switches ? (I assume Intel would work like a charm, the brand size of Intel and Cisco and the public PR claims of love between the two brands just make me believe so) Any specific notes regarding the Cisco and Myricom CX4 metallic and SFP+ vs. X2 multimode optical transceiver compatibility?
2) do you have any notes regarding Intel+SmallTree or Myricom 10Gb Ethernet boards under MacOS on Intel Mac? Driver issues, performance, general compatibility...
Any techie hints would be appreciated, before I start collecting price quotes from local distributors :-)
