10/100/1000 Ethernet hardware recommendation

r17fbsd at xxiii.com r17fbsd at xxiii.com
Sat Jun 2 15:47:23 UTC 2007


At 01:16 AM 6/2/2007, Christopher Hilton wrote:
>.....My experience with Gigabit Ethernet leads me to like the Intel 
>Pro/1000 cards which I believe use the em(4) driver in FreeBSD.

Go for it!  I just upgraded several servers and desktops with Intel 
1000 series NICs, and they're working great.  Intel actively develops 
and supports the drivers for FreeBSD;  nice vendor commitment.

You can also find the boards inexpensively on EBay.

   -RW




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