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Subject: Re: Opinions on "best" NIC for high-touch applications 
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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