From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 2 10: 9: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from athena.lightningone.net (athena.lightningone.net [12.34.104.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D334E37BD00 for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2000 10:08:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from john@essenz.com) Received: from localhost (john@localhost) by athena.lightningone.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA03609; Wed, 2 Aug 2000 13:17:51 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from john@essenz.com) X-Authentication-Warning: athena.lightningone.net: john owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 13:17:51 -0400 (EDT) From: Essenz Consulting X-Sender: john@athena.lightningone.net To: "Kenneth D. Merry" Cc: Josef Grosch , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Gigabit ethernet In-Reply-To: <20000802102607.A34765@panzer.kdm.org> 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 Do both the Netgear GA620 and GA620T work? On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message