Hi list,

I know this is a rather classic question, but I have searched a lot on this 
again recently, and I just cannot find any conclusive up to date information?

I am looking to buy the best 1Gbe NIC possible for OpenBSD and the only 
official comments I can find relate to 3COM for ISA, or community consensus 
towards Chelsio for 10Gbe.

I know Intel works ok and I’ve used the i350’s before, but my understanding is 
that Intel still doesn’t provide the documentation for their NICs and so the 
emX driver is reverse engineered.

And if I remember correctly some offload features were also disabled in the emX 
driver a while back as some functions where found to be insecure on die and so 
it was deemed safer to bring the logic back on CPU.

So I’m looking for the best 1Gbe NIC that supports the most offloading/best 
driver support/performance etc.

Thanks, Andy.

PS; could we update the official supported hardware lists? ;)
All the best.


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