On Sunday 15 April 2007 22:30, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2007/04/15 20:27, Chris C. wrote: > > I'm in the need to replace my two 100mbit fxp nic's in my firewall with a > > 1000mbit one. The hardware is kinda old. (PIII) > > I'm looking for an inexpensive but not bad (so I think no realtek chips) > > nic. Have looked at sk and bge, but couldn't find any bge nics at my > > local vendors. So... which driver to go? sk? em? > > Modern Realtek re(4) are not really a problem, they do IPv4 TCP > checksum offload, HW vlan tagging, and are a better design than the > rl(4). They only handle jumbo frames up to 7.5k, but if jumbo > support was a big issue you'd probably have mentioned it already > (and even 2k would cover many of the reasons you'd want jumbos). > > I'd still go for the sk(4) if they were the same price - this is > fairly possible, unlike em(4) which will almost certainly cost more > than re(4) - but don't worry about it, pretty much anything you > pick up is likely to work fine.
Thanks, will go and get some sk's. Greetings Chris
