Good FreeBSD Supported Gigabit Ethernet Card?

[Oliver Hansen]

Preston Hagar wrote:
> On 9/14/07, Oliver Hansen <oliver.hansen at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> I'm looking to eventually upgrade my home network to all gigabit so I'm
>> going to start by purchasing a few NICs for some old servers I just
>> received. I know there are quite a few supported by FreeBSD6 which I found
>> ( http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.0R/hardware-i386.html#ETHERNET ) but
>> I'm wondering if there is any real benefit in buying a $40 or $50 NIC
>> like the Netgear GA311 or just get a $20 NIC like the D-Link DFE-530TX+.
>> The use will probably be a firewall, proxy, file server, and DVR.
>> <http://www.EagleBit.com/Netgear_GA311_Gigabit_PCI_Card_p/eb-400-00357.htm>
>>
>> --
>> Oliver Hansen
>> http://www.oliverhansen.com
>>
>>
>>     
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>
> As others have stated, Intel's are great.  I would highly recommend
> them.  Just as a heads up in case you weren't aware, in your research
> and purchase watch out for vendors switching chipsets within card
> models.  Linksys is very bad about this.--snip-- Usually, no matter what the chipset, Intels seem to
> be well supported.  I also had good success with the D-Link DGE-560T
> PCI Express card and the DGE-530T PCI card under OpenBSD.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Preston
>
>   
Thank you Preston and others. I have ordered 4 Intel PWLA8391GT PRO/1000 
GT PCI NICs*. *The Intels seemed like a natural choice considering their 
support and the fact that I've had no issues with them on other 
platforms. Thanks again for the help.

-- 
Oliver Hansen
http://www.oliverhansen.com