Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2000 13:03:09 -0500 From: Thomas Stromberg <tstromberg@rtci.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Suggestions for Gigabit cards for -CURRENT Message-ID: <3898715D.1E2FDD41@rtci.com>
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We're currently looking at upgrading several of our FreeBSD servers (dual PIII-600's, 66MHz PCI) and some Sun Ultra's to Gigabit Ethernet. We plan to hook these machines into our Cisco Catalyst 5000 server. They will most likely move to be running FreeBSD 4.x by the time that we actually get our budget approved. What experiences do you guys have with the cards? Currently we're looking at the ~$1000 range, specifically at Alteon 512k's ($1000) for the FreeBSD servers and Sun Gigabit 2.0's ($2000) for the Sun servers. I was interested in the Myrinet cards (for obvious reasons), but they appear to require a Myrinet switch (though I found myself slightly confused so I may be wrong) rather then being able to hook into our Catalyst 5000. The Intel PRO/1000 Gigabit cards look rather nice too, but I haven't seen drivers yet for FreeBSD (Linux yes). I'm pretty much purchasing on marketing and reputation rather then any experience here, so any help would be much appreciated. -- ======================================================================= Thomas R. Stromberg Asst. IS Manager / Systems Guru FreeBSD Contrib, Security Geek, etc. Research Triangle Commerce, Inc. http://www.afterthought.org/ http://www.rtci.com/ thomas@stromberg.org tstromberg@rtci.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- MCSE: McDonald's Certified Service Engineer ===================================================================<eof> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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