From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 16 18:51:13 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6915016A419 for ; Sun, 16 Sep 2007 18:51:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from anrays@gmail.com) Received: from mail.matrix.farlep.net (mail.matrix.farlep.net [217.146.241.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CB8913C481 for ; Sun, 16 Sep 2007 18:51:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from anrays@gmail.com) Received: from santinel.home.ua (senser.ppp.matrix.private [10.64.37.183]) by mail.matrix.farlep.net with ESMTP id 1IWyU0-00058x-L1; Sun, 16 Sep 2007 21:04:36 +0300 Received: from anray by santinel.home.ua with local (Exim 4.67; FreeBSD) id 1IWyXS-0007qO-Ff; Sun, 16 Sep 2007 21:08:10 +0300 To: Steve Bertrand References: <46EA192E.7030807@gmail.com> <46EA278B.50603@ibctech.ca> From: Andrey Slusar Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 21:08:10 +0300 In-Reply-To: <46EA278B.50603@ibctech.ca> (Steve Bertrand's message of "Fri, 14 Sep 2007 02:17:47 -0400") Message-ID: <86lkb6a3g5.fsf@santinel.home.ua> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) XEmacs/21.5-b28 (i386--freebsd) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Spam-Score: -0.0 (/) X-Spam-Report: Content analysis details: (-0.0 points, 5.0 required, autolearn: no) pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- -0.0 BAYES_44 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 44 to 50% [score: 0.4957] Cc: questions@freebsd.org, Oliver Hansen Subject: Re: Good FreeBSD Supported Gigabit Ethernet Card? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 18:51:13 -0000 Fri, 14 Sep 2007 02:17:47 -0400, Steve Bertrand wrote: > > I'm looking to eventually upgrade my home network to all gigabit so I'm > > going to start by purchasing a few NICs for some old servers I just > > received. I know there are quite a few supported by FreeBSD6 which I > > found ( http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.0R/hardware-i386.html#ETHERNET > > ) but I'm wondering if there is any real benefit in buying a $40 or $50 > > NIC like the Netgear GA311 or just get a $20 NIC like the D-Link > > DFE-530TX+. The use will probably be a firewall, proxy, file server, and > > DVR. > > > I have a few Netgear GA311's in production, and although I haven't done > any benchmarking, I know that they work rock solid operating atop the re > driver in my backup infrastructure: > backup# uname -a > FreeBSD backup 6.2-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p2 #0: Mon Mar 5 > 16:57:55 EST 2007 > backup# ifconfig > re0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 > options=1b > .... I can't speak of D-Link however. Aside from the NIC's, I have found > some performance issues with NetGear GigE managed switches though, > whereas they seem to slowly loose throughput width after a few months > without a reboot. In gigabit networks if_re is not very stable card - needs disabling TXCSUM(ifconfig re0 -txcsum) - it's not great choice.