Ultra 5 gigabit NIC

Dean Strik dean at stack.nl
Sun Jun 5 15:48:12 GMT 2005


Sten Spans wrote:
> On Sun, 5 Jun 2005, Doug White wrote:
> 
> >On Thu, 2 Jun 2005, Evan Sayer wrote:
> >
> >>Can anyone recommend a reliable gigabit NIC for a Sun Ultra 5 under
> >>FreeBSD 5.2.1?
> >
> >Considering the U5 only has 32 bit 33MHz PCI, it'll never even get close
> >to pushing that much b/w so as long as its supported under sparc64 you
> >should be fine.
> 
> Sun gigabit 1/2 isn't supported afaik.

Er, I guess gem(4) covers that, though I haven't ever tried one in a
FreeBSD box yet.

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