From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 4 14:09:24 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7EBF10656C3 for ; Sat, 4 Sep 2010 14:09:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fazaeli@sepehrs.com) Received: from sepehrs.com (sepehrs.com [213.217.59.98]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04D528FC0C for ; Sat, 4 Sep 2010 14:09:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.0.1] ([192.168.3.10]) by sepehrs.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o84DPIpZ017848; Sat, 4 Sep 2010 17:55:18 +0430 (IRDT) Message-ID: <4C8249B7.8060006@sepehrs.com> Date: Sat, 04 Sep 2010 17:59:27 +0430 From: "H.Fazaeli" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100802 Thunderbird/3.1.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ryan Coleman References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Which of these NICs will work? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 04 Sep 2010 14:09:25 -0000 based on 10+ exprience and working with a dozen models, I recommend intel cards: - Intel explicitly supports freebsd. - the cards are highly stable - have best performance among all other cards on freebsd and if you look for best performance, buy a card based on 82575 or 82576 controllers. On 9/3/2010 8:28 PM, Ryan Coleman wrote: > Any thoughts? I need/want to get a multi-port NIC for my new system but I haven't purchased the guts for the server yet. > > http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100010064+600013872+600016290&QksAutoSuggestion=&ShowDeactivatedMark=False&Configurator=&IsNodeId=1&Subcategory=27&description=&Ntk=&CFG=&SpeTabStoreType=&srchInDesc= > > Basically, this machine will have two external (real-world) IPs and one network LAN (10.0.1.0/24) address, finding three-NIC motherboards is not exactly possible so this is my alternative. > > I'm looking for FreeBSD 7-9 support. Rather run 8.1-RELEASE (same as my other two machines right now). > > Thanks, > > Ryan > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >