On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 15:11:16 -0700, Wes Peters wrote:
> "Kenneth D. Merry" wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 13:03:09 -0500, Thomas Stromberg wrote:
> > > We're currently looking at upgrading several of our FreeBSD servers
> > > (dual PIII-600's, 66MHz PCI) and some Sun Ultra's to Gigabit Ethernet.
> > > We plan to hook these machines into our Cisco Catalyst 5000 server. They
> > > will most likely move to be running FreeBSD 4.x by the time that we
> > > actually get our budget approved. What experiences do you guys have with
> > > the cards?
> >
> > I would recommend getting Alteon boards. It is likely that the Sun boards
> > are Alteon OEM, although I'm not positive.
> >
> > One thing to keep in mind is that both Netgear and 3Com are OEMing Alteon
> > boards, and you'll get them much cheaper that way. The boards are pretty
> > much identical to the Alteon branded boards (which have no identifying
> > marks on them). The performance is the same, at least for the Netgear
> > boards. (I don't have any 3Com boards.)
> >
> > The Netgear GA620 is a 512K Tigon 2 board, and generally goes for around
> > $300 or so. The 3Com boards have 1MB of SRAM, but I'm not sure whether
> > they're Tigon 1 or Tigon 2. You really want a Tigon 2 board. Maybe
> > someone who has one can comment.
>
> I have a couple of GA620's here, too, and they work quite well. They support
> both 66Mhz and 64-bit PCI bus. We paid $329 from warehouse.com about 4 months
> ago, quite a reasonable price.
>
> You might want to look around and see if anyone has Solaris drivers for
> the Tigon-2, if you're using PCI Sun machines.
Alteon includes a Solaris driver in their driver development kit. It might
be possible to modify the probe routine to recognize other Tigon boards
like the Netgear or 3Com boards.
Ken
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