Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 10:26:07 -0600 From: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org> To: Josef Grosch <jgrosch@mooseriver.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Gigabit ethernet Message-ID: <20000802102607.A34765@panzer.kdm.org> In-Reply-To: <20000802091500.A71259@mooseriver.com>; from jgrosch@mooseriver.com on Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 09:15:00AM -0700 References: <20000802091500.A71259@mooseriver.com>
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On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 09:15:00 -0700, Josef Grosch wrote: > > Simple question: > > Which Gigabit ethernet card works best with FreeBSD? Alteon-based boards. This includes Alteon ACEnics, the 3Com 3c985B (which has 1MB SRAM), and the Netgear GA620 (which has 512K SRAM). You can get the Netgear board for about $320, and the copper version of the board for about $310 from www.necxdirect.com. The 3Com board is about $680 from the same place. (You're paying for the extra memory, which can make a difference, albeit not an enormous difference. Also, the Windows drivers for the Netgear boards don't do jumbo frames. I'm not sure whether the 3Com Windows drivers do jumbo frames, but I would guess that they do.) If you want bandwidth numbers, see: http://people.freebsd.org/~ken/zero_copy/ Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@kdm.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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