From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 2 03:05:31 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90BAA16A4CE for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2005 03:05:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.utcorp.net (mail.utcorp.net [146.145.135.97]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C15343D48 for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2005 03:05:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lister@primetime.com) Received: from [10.200.1.90] (helo=[10.200.1.90]) by mail.utcorp.net with esmtp (Exim 4.30; FreeBSD) id 1CwB7Q-0004Yw-Sx for freebsd-net@freebsd.org; Tue, 01 Feb 2005 22:23:53 -0500 Message-ID: <42006E43.2090801@primetime.com> Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 22:08:03 -0800 From: Lister User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050116) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-yoursite-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-yoursite-MailScanner: Found to be clean Subject: gigabit nic recommendations X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 03:05:32 -0000 What is a good Gb nic for these criterion : * FBSD 4.11 now, 5.X later * prefer 64 bit, 32 bit slots all full. Is there any other advantage to 64 bit? e.g. speed? system load? * I would like not to spend a king's ransom :) * RJ-45 (Cisco 29XX w/ RJ-45 GBIC) If it helps, this is the motherboard : http://www.tyan.com/products/html/tigermpx.html TIA