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?
Currently we're looking at the ~$1000 range, specifically at Alteon
512k's ($1000) for the FreeBSD servers and Sun Gigabit 2.0's ($2000) for
the Sun servers. I was interested in the Myrinet cards (for obvious
reasons), but they appear to require a Myrinet switch (though I found
myself slightly confused so I may be wrong) rather then being able to
hook into our Catalyst 5000. The Intel PRO/1000 Gigabit cards look
rather nice too, but I haven't seen drivers yet for FreeBSD (Linux yes).
I'm pretty much purchasing on marketing and reputation rather then any
experience here, so any help would be much appreciated.
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Thomas R. Stromberg Asst. IS Manager / Systems Guru
FreeBSD Contrib, Security Geek, etc. Research Triangle Commerce, Inc.
http://www.afterthought.org/ http://www.rtci.com/
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