Well-supported gigabit cards under 4-stable?

[Tillman Hodgson]

On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 12:46:31AM -0600, Tillman Hodgson wrote:
> 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.
<snip>
> So what's recommended by folks running gigabit gear these days?

[Replying to my own email]

Thanks for the responses. I ended up getting a bge card (NetGear) which
has been performing without any errors through several backup cycles
now.

I chose that one over the Intel simply because I could get it from the
same online as the switch I was purchasing, whereas the Intel card
would've required me to go to a different vender (and end up paying for
separate shipping).

bge0: <Altima AC9100 Gigabit Ethernet, ASIC rev. 0x105> mem 0xfa000000-0xfa00ffff irq 11 at device 10.0 on pci0
bge0: Ethernet address: 00:09:5b:8e:71:2f
miibus0: <MII bus> on bge0
brgphy0: <BCM5701 10/100/1000baseTX PHY> on miibus0
brgphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseTX, 10

# netstat -i
Name    Mtu Network       Address              Ipkts Ierrs    Opkts Oerrs  Coll
bge0   1500 <Link#1>    00:09:5b:8e:71:2f 21261672     0  9481812     0     0
bge0   1500 192.168.23    athena          21339692     -  9669772     -     -

-T


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