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Date:      Wed, 21 Apr 2004 11:36:10 -0700
From:      "George V. Neville-Neil" <gnn@neville-neil.com>
To:        Chance Whaley <chance@dreamscope.com>
Cc:        net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Opinions on "best" NIC for high-touch applications 
Message-ID:  <8765bt18md.wl@jchurch.neville-neil.com.neville-neil.com>
In-Reply-To: <20040421092402.B16278@caliban.dreamscope.com>
References:  <20040421092402.B16278@caliban.dreamscope.com>

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At Wed, 21 Apr 2004 09:36:45 -0700 (PDT),
Chance Whaley wrote:
> I have an application where I am doing quite a bit of high-touch packet
> fiddling and I am looking for opinions on which "standard" Gb NIC
> has the best driver support in 5.2 or CURRENT.
> 
> In my dream world I am looking for something that supports:
> 	- IRQ mitigation / polling (absolute must)
> 	- PCI-X   (absolute must)
> 	- HW checksumming
> 	- Scatter / Gather
> 	- IPsec
> 	- Jumbo frames
> 	- VLANs
> 
> Thoughts??
> 

I think you want the Netear Copper Gigiabit Adapter (GA302T) which is
well supported in 5.x.

I don't know if it supports all that you want, but you should check it
out at least.  The driver is if_bge.c.

Later,
George



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