Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 14:32:03 -0500 From: "Zaphod Beeblebrox" <zbeeble@gmail.com> To: "Edvaldo Silva" <edv@americanadigital.com.br> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NIC for VLAN Message-ID: <5f67a8c40901071132q4c5361ees1c9960c57f3ac221@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5494.189.36.224.139.1231354907.squirrel@correio.americanadigital.com.br> References: <5494.189.36.224.139.1231354907.squirrel@correio.americanadigital.com.br>
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On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Edvaldo Silva <edv@americanadigital.com.br>wrote: > Hello, guys! > > Please, can someone point a NIC, PCI 2.2 specs, full VLAN capable under > FreeBSD? > > I=B4m finding terrible issues using RTL8169 and 3C9x, almost all for the > fact NIC cannot handle MTU a little bigger than 1500 (1500 + vlan > tagging). > > I don=B4t wish reducing MTU. > For 100 meg nics, I almost exclusively use Intel Etherexpress "fxp" cards. I've used them for a long time in servers, but now they average around $3 i= n quantity on eBay and I use them in everything. Also, many off-lease PC's come with it on the motherboard. For GigE, I prefer (also) Intel Etherexpress --- but the driver is "em" (I have not tried "igb). I also have had no complaints with "bge" and "bce" driver chipsets on equipped motherboards. In both cases, I make heavy use of vlans and hardware vlan tagging. Many router machines have between 10 and 50 vlan interfaces.
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