seeking recommendation: 1000Base-SX PCI NIC for FreeBSD 8

[John-Mark Gurney]

Jay Borkenhagen wrote this message on Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 10:47 -0500:
> After having been disappointed by one vendor *, I am returning to this
> list to seek recommendations for 1000Base-SX PCI NICs.  I am looking
> to run them on FreeBSD 8 and beyond, and I need support for MTU > 1500
> bytes (initially around 4470, but possibly closer to 9k later).
> 
> On http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.1R/hardware.html#ETHERNET I found
> mention of several "SX" cards, but I have first-hand experience with
> none of them.  If anyone here can confirm jumbo support and current
> retail availability of any such cards, I would be very appreciative.

One option is to use an external media converter w/ a traditional gige
NIC...  I used one for a while when interfacing with a switch that did
not have a copper gige port on it, only SX ports...  I will admit I didn't
try to run jumbo frames with the TrendNET one I had, but it work great
for many years...

searching for "1000base-sx media converter" should turn up plenty of
results...

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