Recommendations for NICs?

[Robert Huff]

Chuck Swiger writes:

>  > This used to be a hot topic long ago, but now seems to have become
>  > rather dormant.
>  
>  Intel (fxp, em) and Broadcom (bce, bge) make fine NICs, and the
>  older DEC/Intel 21x4x Tulip series (dc/de) was quite good as
>  well.

	Let me add my vote for Intel: I have a dual-port Pro/1000, and
the thing is a rock:

huff at jerusalem>> uptime
 1:28PM  up 3 days, 20:56, 7 users, load averages: 2.47, 2.32, 2.28
huff at jerusalem>> netstat -i
Name    Mtu Network       Address              Ipkts Ierrs    Opkts Oerrs  Coll
em0    1500 <Link#1>      00:0e:0c:a8:a7:e8  7814719     0  5448800     0 354923
em0    1500 fe80:1::20e:c fe80:1::20e:cff:f        0     -        3     -     -
em0    1500 209.6.88.0/21 209.6.91.204       4586806     -  5448773     -     -
em1    1500 <Link#2>      00:0e:0c:a8:a7:e9    23378     0     1104     0     0
em1    1500 10.0.0.0      jerusalem.scallop   825417     -     1096     -     -
em1    1500 fe80:2::20e:c fe80:2::20e:cff:f        0     -        4     -     -

	The other nifty thing?  The driver.  Written by Intel <waves at
Jack Vogel>, with superlative turn-around on problems or documentation
questions, and open source.


					Robert Huff