From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 2 14:18:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from panzer.kdm.org (panzer.kdm.org [216.160.178.169]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EEE2419C; Wed, 2 Feb 2000 14:18:30 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ken@localhost) by panzer.kdm.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) id PAA45356; Wed, 2 Feb 2000 15:17:48 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from ken) Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 15:17:48 -0700 From: "Kenneth D. Merry" To: Wes Peters Cc: Thomas Stromberg , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Suggestions for Gigabit cards for -CURRENT Message-ID: <20000202151748.A45307@panzer.kdm.org> References: <3898715D.1E2FDD41@rtci.com> <20000202113259.A43505@panzer.kdm.org> <3898AB84.BDCC45F9@softweyr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <3898AB84.BDCC45F9@softweyr.com>; from wes@softweyr.com on Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 03:11:16PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 15:11:16 -0700, Wes Peters wrote: > "Kenneth D. Merry" wrote: > > > > On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 13:03:09 -0500, Thomas Stromberg wrote: > > > We're currently looking at upgrading several of our FreeBSD servers > > > (dual PIII-600's, 66MHz PCI) and some Sun Ultra's to Gigabit Ethernet. > > > We plan to hook these machines into our Cisco Catalyst 5000 server. They > > > will most likely move to be running FreeBSD 4.x by the time that we > > > actually get our budget approved. What experiences do you guys have with > > > the cards? > > > > I would recommend getting Alteon boards. It is likely that the Sun boards > > are Alteon OEM, although I'm not positive. > > > > One thing to keep in mind is that both Netgear and 3Com are OEMing Alteon > > boards, and you'll get them much cheaper that way. The boards are pretty > > much identical to the Alteon branded boards (which have no identifying > > marks on them). The performance is the same, at least for the Netgear > > boards. (I don't have any 3Com boards.) > > > > The Netgear GA620 is a 512K Tigon 2 board, and generally goes for around > > $300 or so. The 3Com boards have 1MB of SRAM, but I'm not sure whether > > they're Tigon 1 or Tigon 2. You really want a Tigon 2 board. Maybe > > someone who has one can comment. > > I have a couple of GA620's here, too, and they work quite well. They support > both 66Mhz and 64-bit PCI bus. We paid $329 from warehouse.com about 4 months > ago, quite a reasonable price. > > You might want to look around and see if anyone has Solaris drivers for > the Tigon-2, if you're using PCI Sun machines. Alteon includes a Solaris driver in their driver development kit. It might be possible to modify the probe routine to recognize other Tigon boards like the Netgear or 3Com boards. Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@kdm.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message