From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 2 9:32:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D83B37BC84 for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2000 09:32:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from semuta.feral.com (semuta [192.67.166.70]) by feral.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA30573; Wed, 2 Aug 2000 09:32:06 -0700 Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 09:30:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: Charles Randall Cc: jgrosch@mooseriver.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Gigabit ethernet In-Reply-To: <5FE9B713CCCDD311A03400508B8B301301C7892A@bdr-xcln.is.matchlogic.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG And just to get my name in the minutes, the Intel Gig Ethernet card works fairly well, but because it's not well supported by the manufacturer releasing information about it, it may not be the best choice. Performance has been not proven to be good either- partly because I only had rev 1 boards that couldn't do PCI MWI cycles. I've had reports from other folks that have indicating being able to saturate a switch with it, but I have not been able to confirm that myself. FWIW..... On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Charles Randall wrote: > These pages should answer all of your questions. > > http://people.freebsd.org/~wpaul/Alteon/ > http://people.freebsd.org/~wpaul/SysKonnect/ > > I went with the NetGear GA-620 because it was cheap. > > In retrospect (after talking with Bill Paul), I should have probably gone > with the Alteon AceNIC or the 3com 3c985. They both have 1 MB of SRAM > compared to the 512 KB in the NetGear. To quote Bill, "The Netgear card is > inexpensive for a reason. :)" > > Charles > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Josef Grosch [mailto:jgrosch@mooseriver.com] > Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2000 10:15 AM > To: hackers@freebsd.org > Subject: Gigabit ethernet > > > > Simple question: > > Which Gigabit ethernet card works best with FreeBSD? > > > Josef > > -- > Josef Grosch | Another day closer to a | FreeBSD 4.1 > jgrosch@MooseRiver.com | Micro$oft free world | UNIX for the masses > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message