Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:33:40 -0500 From: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recommendations for NICs? Message-ID: <19288.40452.585100.493173@jerusalem.litteratus.org> In-Reply-To: <9F075D36-72FF-4B40-B9AD-918808369D3D@mac.com> References: <20100121112757.A11858@starfire.mn.org> <9F075D36-72FF-4B40-B9AD-918808369D3D@mac.com>
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Chuck Swiger writes: > > This used to be a hot topic long ago, but now seems to have become > > rather dormant. > > Intel (fxp, em) and Broadcom (bce, bge) make fine NICs, and the > older DEC/Intel 21x4x Tulip series (dc/de) was quite good as > well. Let me add my vote for Intel: I have a dual-port Pro/1000, and the thing is a rock: huff@jerusalem>> uptime 1:28PM up 3 days, 20:56, 7 users, load averages: 2.47, 2.32, 2.28 huff@jerusalem>> netstat -i Name Mtu Network Address Ipkts Ierrs Opkts Oerrs Coll em0 1500 <Link#1> 00:0e:0c:a8:a7:e8 7814719 0 5448800 0 354923 em0 1500 fe80:1::20e:c fe80:1::20e:cff:f 0 - 3 - - em0 1500 209.6.88.0/21 209.6.91.204 4586806 - 5448773 - - em1 1500 <Link#2> 00:0e:0c:a8:a7:e9 23378 0 1104 0 0 em1 1500 10.0.0.0 jerusalem.scallop 825417 - 1096 - - em1 1500 fe80:2::20e:c fe80:2::20e:cff:f 0 - 4 - - The other nifty thing? The driver. Written by Intel <waves at Jack Vogel>, with superlative turn-around on problems or documentation questions, and open source. Robert Huff
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