Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 12:31:05 -0500 From: Dennis <dennis@etinc.com> To: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org> Cc: "Schmalzbauer, Harald" <H.Schmalzbauer@belenus.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AW: Best Gigabit ethernet for 4.x Message-ID: <5.0.0.25.0.20010324122812.038f4eb0@mail.etinc.com> In-Reply-To: <20001118150437.A15956@panzer.kdm.org> References: <5.0.0.25.0.20001118113245.032d3130@mail.etinc.com> <B14AF62CDA08D4118B8C00508B44A0B5154E4E@server02.belenus.co m> <5.0.0.25.0.20001118113245.032d3130@mail.etinc.com>
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At 05:04 PM 11/18/2000, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: >On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 11:33:29 -0500, Dennis wrote: > > At 04:28 PM 11/17/2000, Schmalzbauer, Harald wrote: > > >I just heard that Intel doesn't supply documentation on ther chipset > and the > > >FreeBSD and Linux support is quiet bad. The Netgear GA620 is said to be > > >twice as fast. The same Chipset (Alteon Tigon/AceNIC) is on the 3com985. > > > > > > Are all of the cards supported that use this chipset? I read somewhere > that > > the netgear card has a smallish buffer, and that the alteon was a better > > choice. How does the 3com card compare in that respect? > >The Netgear boards have 512K SRAM, the 3Com boards have 1MB SRAM. > >You can get Alteon-branded boards (with either 512K or 1MB SRAM), but >generally only directly from Alteon, and you're going to pay more than you >would for either the 3Com or Netgear boards. > >The 3Com and Netgear boards are identical to the Alteon boards. The only >difference is they've got "Netgear" or "3Com" silk-screened on them, and >the Alteon boards don't have any logos on them. > >FWIW, 3Com is buying Alteon's NIC group. Apparantly (according to an >Alteon engineer who posted on the linux-acenic list) they're just buying >the technology, not hiring the engineers: When you say "identical", that implies that they are the same...or do you just mean that they use the same parts? It seems unlikely that alteon would allow netgear to license its product and them sell it for 1/2 the price. Price is not an issue at this level as performance is tantamount, but Im not sure you'd need more than 512M with unix unless you have several NICs in a box. Dennis To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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