Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:31:12 -0500 (CDT) From: "Sean C. Farley" <scf@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Packet-corruption with re(4) Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.1.10.0804291621590.1104@thor.farley.org> In-Reply-To: <20080429120834.GB44737@eos.sc1.parodius.com> References: <C94C6F8A-C424-4C7E-955A-5E243BE4FABC@pean.org> <20080429120834.GB44737@eos.sc1.parodius.com>
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On Tue, 29 Apr 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > I'd recommend staying away from Realtek NICs. Pick up an Intel > Pro/1000 GT or PT. Realtek has a well-known history of issues. Just a note about the Intel Pro/1000 GT: it is on-sale[1] at NewEgg with free shipping. I just bought my third one to replace an on-board NIC (Marvell Yukon 88E8056) with auto-negotiation problems and an inability to take advantage of jumbo frames at the same time as checksum offloading. Sean 1. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833106121 -- scf@FreeBSD.org
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