On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 09:15:00 -0700, Josef Grosch wrote:
>
> Simple question:
>
> Which Gigabit ethernet card works best with FreeBSD?
Alteon-based boards. This includes Alteon ACEnics, the 3Com 3c985B (which
has 1MB SRAM), and the Netgear GA620 (which has 512K SRAM).
You can get the Netgear board for about $320, and the copper version of the
board for about $310 from www.necxdirect.com. The 3Com board is about $680
from the same place. (You're paying for the extra memory, which can make a
difference, albeit not an enormous difference. Also, the Windows drivers
for the Netgear boards don't do jumbo frames. I'm not sure whether the
3Com Windows drivers do jumbo frames, but I would guess that they do.)
If you want bandwidth numbers, see:
http://people.freebsd.org/~ken/zero_copy/
Ken
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