From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 20 13:53:56 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 6FC1616A4CE for ; Wed, 20 Apr 2005 13:53:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: from aramaki.bong.com.au (aramaki.bong.com.au [203.91.232.99]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7470B43D31 for ; Wed, 20 Apr 2005 13:53:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dean@bong.com.au) Received: from dsl-220-253-77-180.nsw.netspace.net.au ([220.253.77.180] helo=[192.168.1.104]) by aramaki.bong.com.au with asmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DOFmP-0002cx-JJ; Thu, 21 Apr 2005 00:02:18 +1000 Message-ID: <4265BDF0.1050403@bong.com.au> Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 12:26:56 +1000 From: Dean Hamstead User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050401) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Samuel Clements References: <4264F52B.9030208@bong.com.au> <42654BB4.4040804@linkline.com> In-Reply-To: <42654BB4.4040804@linkline.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 0.2 X-Spam-Report: Spam detection software, running on the system "aramaki.bong.com.au", hasmessagelabel similar future email. If you have any questions, see staff@bong.com.au for details. Content preview: [...] Content analysis details: (0.2 points, 5.0 required) pts rule name description --------------------------------------------------date X-Spam-Scanned-By: aramaki.bong.com.au X-Scan-Signature: 0d3c70d7f7605f67096255f2708eb381 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 13:53:56 -0000 In the copper world i have had nothing but overwhelming sucess with intel cards also. im after single port cards (so i guess, 2 fibres one rx and one tx) but i have no idea about LC or SC. wikipedia has failed almost completely in this area. it only has stubs for 1000baseSX Dean > The Intel PRO/1000 lineup seems to work very well around here and seems > to be really well supported. They have several SX cards available. Do > you want single, dual, or quad ports? Do you want LC or SC fiber > connectors? > > http://support.intel.com/support/network/sb/cs-012904.htm > > -Sam > > -- WWW: http://dean.bong.com.au LAN: http://www.bong.com.au EMAIL: dean@bong.com.au or djzort@bong.com.au ICQ: 16867613