Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 02:17:47 -0400 From: Steve Bertrand <iaccounts@ibctech.ca> To: Oliver Hansen <oliver.hansen@gmail.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Good FreeBSD Supported Gigabit Ethernet Card? Message-ID: <46EA278B.50603@ibctech.ca> In-Reply-To: <46EA192E.7030807@gmail.com> References: <46EA192E.7030807@gmail.com>
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Oliver Hansen 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. > <http://www.EagleBit.com/Netgear_GA311_Gigabit_PCI_Card_p/eb-400-00357.htm>; 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<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 options=1b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING> .... 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. Steve
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