From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 2 05:17:00 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6E0E16A421 for ; Sat, 2 Jun 2007 05:17:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chris@vindaloo.com) Received: from corellia.vindaloo.com (corellia.vindaloo.com [64.51.148.100]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD83713C45A for ; Sat, 2 Jun 2007 05:17:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chris@vindaloo.com) Received: from [172.24.145.69] (endor.vindaloo.com [172.24.145.69]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by corellia.vindaloo.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDAE05CB8; Sat, 2 Jun 2007 01:16:55 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4660FD46.8030509@vindaloo.com> Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2007 01:16:54 -0400 From: Christopher Hilton User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (Macintosh/20070509) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: User Questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: 10/100/1000 Ethernet hardware recommendation X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2007 05:17:01 -0000 I'm about to build a Gigabit backend network for a few machines. This network will provide file and database services to a dedicated set of web application servers. My experience with Gigabit Ethernet leads me to like the Intel Pro/1000 cards which I believe use the em(4) driver in FreeBSD. Is this an appropriate NIC for a server or is there something better? Thanks in advance -- Chris -- __o "All I was doing was trying to get home from work." _`\<,_ -Rosa Parks ___(*)/_(*)___________________________________________________________ Christopher Sean Hilton pgp key: D0957A2D/f5 30 0a e1 55 76 9b 1f 47 0b 07 e9 75 0e 14