Good FreeBSD Supported Gigabit Ethernet Card?

[Jeffrey Goldberg]

On Sep 14, 2007, at 1:25 AM, Subhro Kar wrote:

> No offence meant, but why would you like to upgrade a "home"  
> network to
> Gbit? Is it required at all?

I've been slowly undertaking the same kind of upgrade and so would  
like to know whether my reasons are sound.

As of six months ago all of the daily used desktops (three) in my  
house are gigabit, but none of the servers are.  For the past year or  
so any time I bought a new switch, I've bought a gigabit switch.  The  
old 10/100 switches get moved to my DMZ where gigabit really is  
pointless for the foreseeable future.  (The firewall between the LAN  
and the DMZ doesn't do gigabit and the only big transfers within or  
across the DMZ would be backups.  The house is wired with cat6  
cable.  (I had that put in when we bought the house two and half  
years ago.)

Eventually I would like to have a proper NAS sharing out home  
directories.  The desktops are all OS X.  Some members of the  
household play with iMovie which involves some very large files.

I don't know when I'll get around to setting up the NAS, but many  
decisions I make today keep that goal in mind.  Thus, I am migrating  
to gigabit on my home network.  When I do build the NAS, I will  
certainly be looking for a good FreeBSD supported gigabit ethernet card.

Do I really need gigabit?  Of course not.  But I don't really need  
most of the stuff I do.

-j