From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 20 04:45:04 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 646C316A4CE for ; Wed, 20 Apr 2005 04:45:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp818.mail.sc5.yahoo.com (smtp818.mail.sc5.yahoo.com [66.163.170.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 31FEE43D1D for ; Wed, 20 Apr 2005 04:45:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from g_jin@lbl.gov) Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.2.11?) (jinmtb@sbcglobal.net@68.127.155.26 with plain) by smtp818.mail.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 20 Apr 2005 04:45:03 -0000 Message-ID: <4265DE5F.7060500@lbl.gov> Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 21:45:19 -0700 From: "Jin Guojun [VFFS]" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050108 X-Accept-Language: zh, zh-CN, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dean Hamstead References: <4264F52B.9030208@bong.com.au> In-Reply-To: <4264F52B.9030208@bong.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fibre gigabit card recommendation X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 04:45:04 -0000 Dean Hamstead wrote: > could someone recommend a fibre gigabit nic that works > well freebsd, if it works in other OS's thats fantastic > but freebsd is all im interested in. > > 1000baseSX would be nice, i think thats the one > > Dean If you think performance, pick SysKonnect adapters which cost more. Otherwise, NetGear and Broadcom cards are good enough. -- ------------ Jin Guojun ----------- v --- jin@george.lbl.gov --- Distributed Systems Department http://www.dsd.lbl.gov/~jin Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720