Well-supported gigabit cards under 4-stable?

[Craig Reyenga]

I have two Intel Pro1000MT's, and they work flawless. I can say with a
straight face that I have never had a problem with them. They have only been
used with one another over a crossover cable, so I can't speak for how well
they play with switches or other brands. I beleive NCI (ncix.com) has them
on sale for about the price you mentioned. I actually got one of them off of
ebay for $43 after shipping. I use an MTU setting of 9014, and it helps
performance sustantially. This testimonial actually applies to both -stable
and -current.

Hope this helps.

-Craig


----- Original Message -----
From: "Tillman Hodgson" <tillman at seekingfire.com>
To: "FreeBSD-Questions" <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 1:46 AM
Subject: Well-supported gigabit cards under 4-stable?


> Howdy,
>
> I found a few threads on this topic in google, but they were from a
> while ago (-stable and hardware are both moving targets, after all).
>
> I'm interesting in seeing what low-cost gigabit cards are supported
> under -stable and which cards might be recommended. I'm looking
> specifically at the Linksys EG1032, D-Link DGE-530T, Intel Pro1000MT,
> and the Micronet SP2612R. All are relatively cheap (Can$64 and lower),
> are easily obtained in Canada via the popular online merchants, and
> would be within reach a typical (though geeky) home network.
>
> Most of my computers will remain 100Mbit, but I'd like to move my main
> file server to 1000Mbit. All the other machines do full dumps to it
> every night (which eventually end up on tape), so it spends a fairly
> large portion of every day with it's interface completely saturated
> (and it's worse on weekly dump days).
>
> I'm primarily concerned with driver stability. For example, I noticed
> some messages in the archives about the nge driver causing problems ...
> that was some time ago, but I'd like to avoid that on a server which
> handles my backups ;-) I'm also interested in nice vlan and jumbo frame
> support, though I can get by without them.
>
> So what's recommended by folks running gigabit gear these days?
>
> -T
>
>
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