From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 8 17:22:57 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B489716A4CF for ; Sat, 8 Nov 2003 17:22:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (lurza.secnetix.de [195.143.231.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6332C43F93 for ; Sat, 8 Nov 2003 17:22:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (yjsbap@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id hA91Msb0049966 for ; Sun, 9 Nov 2003 02:22:54 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from oliver.fromme@secnetix.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.12.9p2/8.12.9/Submit) id hA91MsOn049965; Sun, 9 Nov 2003 02:22:54 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from olli) Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2003 02:22:54 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <200311090122.hA91MsOn049965@lurza.secnetix.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-stable User-Agent: tin/1.5.4-20000523 ("1959") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/4.9-RELEASE (i386)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: 4.9 and Real Tec rtl 8169s ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2003 01:22:57 -0000 David Raistrick wrote: > > > are there any other recommendations for cheap Gigabit cards? > > How cheap is cheap? I just got a few Intel Pro/1000 MT desktop cards for > 42$ each. To me, that's cheap.... Here in Germany, the Realtek cards are going for 29 Euro (which is about 25 $US, I think), and a complete gigabit kit -- two cards, a 5-port gigabit switch, two cables -- for 129 Euro (110 $US). Regards Oliver (Remembering times when 10base-T was on that price level ...) -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. "... there are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are _obviously_ no deficiencies and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no _obvious_ deficiencies." -- C.A.R. Hoare, ACM Turing Award Lecture, 1980