From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 14 06:17:52 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51E9A16A420 for ; Fri, 14 Sep 2007 06:17:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from iaccounts@ibctech.ca) Received: from pearl.ibctech.ca (pearl.ibctech.ca [208.70.104.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD1E713C474 for ; Fri, 14 Sep 2007 06:17:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from iaccounts@ibctech.ca) Received: (qmail 45770 invoked by uid 1002); 14 Sep 2007 06:17:50 -0000 Received: from iaccounts@ibctech.ca by pearl.ibctech.ca by uid 89 with qmail-scanner-1.22 (spamassassin: 2.64. Clear:RC:1(208.70.104.100):. Processed in 11.268956 secs); 14 Sep 2007 06:17:50 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.30.110?) (steve@ibctech.ca@208.70.104.100) by pearl.ibctech.ca with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 14 Sep 2007 06:17:38 -0000 Message-ID: <46EA278B.50603@ibctech.ca> Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 02:17:47 -0400 From: Steve Bertrand User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Oliver Hansen References: <46EA192E.7030807@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <46EA192E.7030807@gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Good FreeBSD Supported Gigabit Ethernet Card? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 06:17:52 -0000 Oliver Hansen wrote: > I'm looking to eventually upgrade my home network to all gigabit so I'm > going to start by purchasing a few NICs for some old servers I just > received. I know there are quite a few supported by FreeBSD6 which I > found ( http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.0R/hardware-i386.html#ETHERNET > ) but I'm wondering if there is any real benefit in buying a $40 or $50 > NIC like the Netgear GA311 or just get a $20 NIC like the D-Link > DFE-530TX+. The use will probably be a firewall, proxy, file server, and > DVR. > I have a few Netgear GA311's in production, and although I haven't done any benchmarking, I know that they work rock solid operating atop the re driver in my backup infrastructure: backup# uname -a FreeBSD backup 6.2-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p2 #0: Mon Mar 5 16:57:55 EST 2007 backup# ifconfig re0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 options=1b .... I can't speak of D-Link however. Aside from the NIC's, I have found some performance issues with NetGear GigE managed switches though, whereas they seem to slowly loose throughput width after a few months without a reboot. Steve