On 03/01/2018 21:51, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
Some people cuss at Broadcom, some people swear by them. I don't own
any of there cards, but I have never had problems with the inbuilt
broadcom nics in any of my dell servers.
I've been using Broadcom for years, integrated on Dell motherboards, an
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> John Lyon wrote:
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> >What's your use case? If this is for a home box, developer box, or
> >something that is not "enterprise production," then I wouldn't worry about
> >RealTek cards bought in the last 5 years. Their 10/100 cards from 15 years
> >ago were crap, which is
On 03/01/2018 20:27, John Lyon wrote:
- Lack of awareness (the RealTek website lists their drivers as being
for FreeBSD 8.x but they are really for 11.x and RealTek just never updated
their site)
IME NIC drivers work pretty well across releases, including moving the
latest ones back to ea
To answer your first question, the better drivers might be in -CURRENT but
I would never know as I run -RELEASE/STABLE. :-) However, I can think of
any number of possibilities (one, some, or none of which may be true),
including:
- Licensing incompatibilities
- Regressions for older hardwa
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John Lyon wrote:
>What's your use case? If this is for a home box, developer box, or
>something that is not "enterprise production," then I wouldn't worry about
>RealTek cards bought in the last 5 years. Their 10/100 cards from 15 years
>ago were crap, which is how they earned the
I just wanted to say thanks to everyone for the suggestions and insight.
I think that I'll end up buying a used Intel PCI-E gigabit card off of
Fleabay, and that ought to do it.
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Original Message
From: "Frank Leonhardt (m)"
Sent: 2 January 2018 21:21:32 GMT+00:00
To: "Ronald F. Guilmette"
Subject: Re: Recommendations for cheap PCI-E network adapter ?
On 2 January 2018 20:38:19 GMT+00:00, "Ronald F. Guilmette"
wrote:
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>I need to buy a PCI-E ether
