Ultra 5 gigabit NIC

[John-Mark Gurney]

Sten Spans wrote this message on Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 23:10 +0200:
> On Sun, 5 Jun 2005, Dean Strik wrote:
> 
> >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.
> 
> Mmmm, I'll try digging up a complete list of chips/drivers and
> give a correct and complete answer. There are so many "sun gigabit"
> adaptors that things get somewhat confusing.

Oh, just so you know, re (RealTek) based gige doesn't work on sparc64..

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