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On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Edvaldo Silva
<edv@americanadigital.com.br>wrote:

> Hello, guys!
>
> Please, can someone point a NIC, PCI 2.2 specs, full VLAN capable under
> FreeBSD?
>
> I=B4m finding terrible issues using RTL8169 and 3C9x, almost all for the
> fact NIC cannot handle MTU a little bigger than 1500 (1500 + vlan
> tagging).
>
> I don=B4t wish reducing MTU.
>

For 100 meg nics, I almost exclusively use Intel Etherexpress "fxp" cards.
I've used them for a long time in servers, but now they average around $3 i=
n
quantity on eBay and I use them in everything.  Also, many off-lease PC's
come with it on the motherboard.

For GigE, I prefer (also) Intel Etherexpress --- but the driver is "em"  (I
have not tried "igb).  I also have had no complaints with "bge" and "bce"
driver chipsets on equipped motherboards.

In both cases, I make heavy use of vlans and hardware vlan tagging.  Many
router machines have between 10 and 50 vlan interfaces.