From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu May 11 10:17:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from panzer.kdm.org (panzer.kdm.org [216.160.178.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF8F137B973 for ; Thu, 11 May 2000 10:17:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ken@panzer.kdm.org) Received: (from ken@localhost) by panzer.kdm.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) id LAA38015; Thu, 11 May 2000 11:17:13 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from ken) Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 11:17:13 -0600 From: "Kenneth D. Merry" To: "Daniel M. Eischen" Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Best supported multiport ethernet card? Message-ID: <20000511111713.A37963@panzer.kdm.org> References: <3919821E.30AFA568@vigrid.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <3919821E.30AFA568@vigrid.com>; from eischen@vigrid.com on Wed, May 10, 2000 at 11:37:02AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, May 10, 2000 at 11:37:02 -0400, Daniel M. Eischen wrote: > I'm also in the market for a GB (1000BaseSX) card. Anyone > have any problems with the SysKonnect SK9843 or SK9844 and > the sk driver? I don't have any experience with the SysKonnect boards, but I would highly recommend an Alteon board. You can get the Netgear GA620 for about $310, and the 3Com 3c985B for about $675. Both are rebagded Alteon Tigon 2 boards. The difference is that the Netgear has 512K SRAM and the 3Com has 1MB SRAM. The Alteon boards support checksum offloading (the code is in -current in fact) and jumbo frames. I've got 15-20 boards, and have been pretty happy with them. Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@kdm.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message