From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 2 9:26:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from panzer.kdm.org (panzer.kdm.org [216.160.178.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0260837BC20 for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2000 09:26:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ken@panzer.kdm.org) Received: (from ken@localhost) by panzer.kdm.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) id KAA34964; Wed, 2 Aug 2000 10:26:07 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from ken) Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 10:26:07 -0600 From: "Kenneth D. Merry" To: Josef Grosch Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Gigabit ethernet Message-ID: <20000802102607.A34765@panzer.kdm.org> References: <20000802091500.A71259@mooseriver.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20000802091500.A71259@mooseriver.com>; from jgrosch@mooseriver.com on Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 09:15:00AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 09:15:00 -0700, Josef Grosch wrote: > > Simple question: > > Which Gigabit ethernet card works best with FreeBSD? Alteon-based boards. This includes Alteon ACEnics, the 3Com 3c985B (which has 1MB SRAM), and the Netgear GA620 (which has 512K SRAM). You can get the Netgear board for about $320, and the copper version of the board for about $310 from www.necxdirect.com. The 3Com board is about $680 from the same place. (You're paying for the extra memory, which can make a difference, albeit not an enormous difference. Also, the Windows drivers for the Netgear boards don't do jumbo frames. I'm not sure whether the 3Com Windows drivers do jumbo frames, but I would guess that they do.) If you want bandwidth numbers, see: http://people.freebsd.org/~ken/zero_copy/ Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@kdm.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message