From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 2 12:42:22 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 BD69916A421 for ; Sat, 2 Jun 2007 12:42:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chloekcy2000@yahoo.ca) Received: from n9a.bullet.mail.re3.yahoo.com (n9a.bullet.mail.re3.yahoo.com [68.142.236.47]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6ABDE13C483 for ; Sat, 2 Jun 2007 12:42:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chloekcy2000@yahoo.ca) Received: from [68.142.237.87] by n9.bullet.re3.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 02 Jun 2007 12:29:12 -0000 Received: from [66.196.101.131] by t3.bullet.re3.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 02 Jun 2007 12:29:12 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by rrr2.mail.re1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 02 Jun 2007 12:29:12 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-5 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 878797.43467.bm@rrr2.mail.re1.yahoo.com Received: (qmail 83967 invoked by uid 60001); 2 Jun 2007 12:29:12 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.ca; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=E7N1RxmHj/MCNIAg2KLXZiGGH3AzVdUvltP9aXc4kU33z1v1QEyJOpXf0XStkodM9PxpJPyOqrr9pg48aMf/fcylEl2sInUwrGmWICpCL8NkWtBosqntfz5xTcO0a7qwoKw1FuquCl6aeqVMbajKhE+727v0I8zTeV5qvnjMZZA=; X-YMail-OSG: PyZomFQVM1nmwMU6G4_lu2J27zsvhmy5bfOcbuAf6e7TyhxloGNr2uZQcrtVFamPMjwf0B3LKvLXBdDgMHmDTv2EYuu.499Bgtu2 Received: from [67.55.28.12] by web57403.mail.re1.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sat, 02 Jun 2007 08:29:12 EDT Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2007 08:29:12 -0400 (EDT) From: chloe K To: Christopher Hilton , User Questions In-Reply-To: <4660FD46.8030509@vindaloo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <759428.83918.qm@web57403.mail.re1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: Re: 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 12:42:22 -0000 intel desktop GigE (32 bits) around 380M intel server GigE (64 bits) around 800M - 900M I have used it for core router for 2 years. they are so good Christopher Hilton wrote: 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 _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" --------------------------------- Ask a question on any topic and get answers from real people. Go to Yahoo! Answers.