From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 21 18:33:44 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7961F1065679 for ; Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:33:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from roberthuff@rcn.com) Received: from smtp02.lnh.mail.rcn.net (smtp02.lnh.mail.rcn.net [207.172.157.102]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C2C98FC1E for ; Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:33:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mr02.lnh.mail.rcn.net ([207.172.157.22]) by smtp02.lnh.mail.rcn.net with ESMTP; 21 Jan 2010 13:33:42 -0500 Received: from smtp01.lnh.mail.rcn.net (smtp01.lnh.mail.rcn.net [207.172.4.11]) by mr02.lnh.mail.rcn.net (MOS 3.10.7-GA) with ESMTP id QLH50416; Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:33:43 -0500 (EST) Received: from 209-6-91-204.c3-0.smr-ubr1.sbo-smr.ma.cable.rcn.com (HELO jerusalem.litteratus.org.litteratus.org) ([209.6.91.204]) by smtp01.lnh.mail.rcn.net with ESMTP; 21 Jan 2010 13:33:42 -0500 From: Robert Huff MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <19288.40452.585100.493173@jerusalem.litteratus.org> Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:33:40 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <9F075D36-72FF-4B40-B9AD-918808369D3D@mac.com> References: <20100121112757.A11858@starfire.mn.org> <9F075D36-72FF-4B40-B9AD-918808369D3D@mac.com> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under 21.5 (beta28) "fuki" XEmacs Lucid X-Junkmail-Whitelist: YES (by domain whitelist at mr02.lnh.mail.rcn.net) Subject: Re: Recommendations for NICs? 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: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:33:44 -0000 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 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 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 , with superlative turn-around on problems or documentation questions, and open source. Robert Huff