Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 13:17:51 -0400 (EDT) From: Essenz Consulting <john@essenz.com> To: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org> Cc: Josef Grosch <jgrosch@mooseriver.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Gigabit ethernet Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10008021317190.3602-100000@athena.lightningone.net> In-Reply-To: <20000802102607.A34765@panzer.kdm.org>
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Do both the Netgear GA620 and GA620T work? On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 09:15:00 -0700, Josef Grosch wrote: > > > > Simple question: > > > > Which Gigabit ethernet card works best with FreeBSD? > > Alteon-based boards. This includes Alteon ACEnics, the 3Com 3c985B (which > has 1MB SRAM), and the Netgear GA620 (which has 512K SRAM). > > You can get the Netgear board for about $320, and the copper version of the > board for about $310 from www.necxdirect.com. The 3Com board is about $680 > from the same place. (You're paying for the extra memory, which can make a > difference, albeit not an enormous difference. Also, the Windows drivers > for the Netgear boards don't do jumbo frames. I'm not sure whether the > 3Com Windows drivers do jumbo frames, but I would guess that they do.) > > If you want bandwidth numbers, see: > > http://people.freebsd.org/~ken/zero_copy/ > > Ken > -- > Kenneth Merry > ken@kdm.org > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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