From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 2 14: 7: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ind.alcatel.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1639E4176; Wed, 2 Feb 2000 14:06:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com (mailhub [198.206.181.70]) by ind.alcatel.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1 (ind.alcatel.com 3.0 [OUT])) with SMTP id OAA23299; Wed, 2 Feb 2000 14:05:52 -0800 (PST) X-Origination-Site: Received: from omni.xylan.com by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id OAA19789; Wed, 2 Feb 2000 14:05:52 -0800 Received: from softweyr.com (dyn5.utah.xylan.com [198.206.184.241]) by omni.xylan.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1 (Xylan engr [SPOOL])) with ESMTP id OAA17724; Wed, 2 Feb 2000 14:05:47 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3898AB84.BDCC45F9@softweyr.com> Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2000 15:11:16 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Kenneth D. Merry" Cc: Thomas Stromberg , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Suggestions for Gigabit cards for -CURRENT References: <3898715D.1E2FDD41@rtci.com> <20000202113259.A43505@panzer.kdm.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Kenneth D. Merry" wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 13:03:09 -0500, Thomas Stromberg wrote: > > 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? > > I would recommend getting Alteon boards. It is likely that the Sun boards > are Alteon OEM, although I'm not positive. > > One thing to keep in mind is that both Netgear and 3Com are OEMing Alteon > boards, and you'll get them much cheaper that way. The boards are pretty > much identical to the Alteon branded boards (which have no identifying > marks on them). The performance is the same, at least for the Netgear > boards. (I don't have any 3Com boards.) > > The Netgear GA620 is a 512K Tigon 2 board, and generally goes for around > $300 or so. The 3Com boards have 1MB of SRAM, but I'm not sure whether > they're Tigon 1 or Tigon 2. You really want a Tigon 2 board. Maybe > someone who has one can comment. I have a couple of GA620's here, too, and they work quite well. They support both 66Mhz and 64-bit PCI bus. We paid $329 from warehouse.com about 4 months ago, quite a reasonable price. You might want to look around and see if anyone has Solaris drivers for the Tigon-2, if you're using PCI Sun machines. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message