From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Sep 10 6:42: 4 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9D9737B400 for ; Tue, 10 Sep 2002 06:42:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net (albatross.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.120]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D0F643E42 for ; Tue, 10 Sep 2002 06:42:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0024.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.198.24] helo=mindspring.com) by albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17olHA-0002jn-00; Tue, 10 Sep 2002 06:41:56 -0700 Message-ID: <3D7DF65C.75666AA8@mindspring.com> Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 06:40:44 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dan Ellard Cc: Darren Pilgrim , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gigabit NIC of choice? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dan Ellard wrote: > Terry Lambert wrote: > > Dan Ellard wrote: > > > What's the gigabit ethernet NIC of choice these days? (I've had good > > > experiences with the NetGear G620T, but apparently this card is no > > > longer being sold.) > > > > The Tigon II has the best performances, but that's because > > software people rewrote the firmware, instead of hardware > > engineers moonlighting as programmers. 8-) 8-). > > Is anyone still making cards with the Tigon II chipset? > I'm not finding them for sale anywhere... See Ken's post. You will basically have to buy them from stock from someone who has them on a shelf somewhere, or you will have to sign NDA and recreate the firmware work on another card. The Tigon III's are *significantly* cheaper, and don't have the firmware-download-each-time-the-IP-changes that the Tigon II driver has, so most people have switches to the Tigon III. I guess the next question is "Anyone know a gigabit NIC that is currently in production, which has hack-friendly firmware?"... -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message