Gigabit NIC recommendation

[Dean Hamstead]

i dont believe that 32bit pci is fast enough to
achieve full speed gigabit throughput.

also, your cpu and disks will need to be able to
keep up!

Dean

lister wrote:
> 
> What is a good Gb nic for these criterion :
> * FBSD 4.11 now, 5.X later
> * prefer 64 bit, 32 bit slots all full. Is there any other advantage
> to 64 bit? e.g. speed? system load?
> * I would like not to spend a king's ransom :)
> * RJ-45 (Cisco 29XX w/ RJ-45 GBIC)
> If it helps, this is the motherboard :
> http://www.tyan.com/products/html/tigermpx.html
> 
> TIA
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