From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 14 22:46:32 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96A9516A4CE for ; Sun, 14 Mar 2004 22:46:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.seekingfire.com (coyote.seekingfire.com [24.72.10.212]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46A2E43D53 for ; Sun, 14 Mar 2004 22:46:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tillman@seekingfire.com) Received: by mail.seekingfire.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id BAE8E204; Mon, 15 Mar 2004 00:46:31 -0600 (CST) Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 00:46:31 -0600 From: Tillman Hodgson To: FreeBSD-Questions Message-ID: <20040315064631.GD24558@seekingfire.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline X-Habeas-SWE-1: winter into spring X-Habeas-SWE-2: brightly anticipated X-Habeas-SWE-3: like Habeas SWE (tm) X-Habeas-SWE-4: Copyright 2002 Habeas (tm) X-Habeas-SWE-5: Sender Warranted Email (SWE) (tm). The sender of this X-Habeas-SWE-6: email in exchange for a license for this Habeas X-Habeas-SWE-7: warrant mark warrants that this is a Habeas Compliant X-Habeas-SWE-8: Message (HCM) and not spam. Please report use of this X-Habeas-SWE-9: mark in spam to . X-GPG-Key-ID: 828AFC7B X-GPG-Fingerprint: 5584 14BA C9EB 1524 0E68 F543 0F0A 7FBC 828A FC7B X-GPG-Key: http://www.seekingfire.com/gpg_key.asc X-Urban-Legend: There is lots of hidden information in headers User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Subject: Well-supported gigabit cards under 4-stable? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 06:46:32 -0000 Howdy, I found a few threads on this topic in google, but they were from a while ago (-stable and hardware are both moving targets, after all). I'm interesting in seeing what low-cost gigabit cards are supported under -stable and which cards might be recommended. I'm looking specifically at the Linksys EG1032, D-Link DGE-530T, Intel Pro1000MT, and the Micronet SP2612R. All are relatively cheap (Can$64 and lower), are easily obtained in Canada via the popular online merchants, and would be within reach a typical (though geeky) home network. Most of my computers will remain 100Mbit, but I'd like to move my main file server to 1000Mbit. All the other machines do full dumps to it every night (which eventually end up on tape), so it spends a fairly large portion of every day with it's interface completely saturated (and it's worse on weekly dump days). I'm primarily concerned with driver stability. For example, I noticed some messages in the archives about the nge driver causing problems ... that was some time ago, but I'd like to avoid that on a server which handles my backups ;-) I'm also interested in nice vlan and jumbo frame support, though I can get by without them. So what's recommended by folks running gigabit gear these days? -T -- Page xxviii: Live with Unix long enough and you will change. You will become more creative, and you will come to understand the spirit of creation in others. - Harley Hahn, _The Unix Companion_