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Date:      Sat, 04 Sep 2010 17:59:27 +0430
From:      "H.Fazaeli" <fazaeli@sepehrs.com>
To:        Ryan Coleman <editor@d3photography.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Which of these NICs will work?
Message-ID:  <4C8249B7.8060006@sepehrs.com>
In-Reply-To: <CD6CFA90-39E1-4F47-BA72-849EC6BF2482@d3photography.com>
References:  <CD6CFA90-39E1-4F47-BA72-849EC6BF2482@d3photography.com>

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  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
>
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