Preston Hagar wrote:
On 9/14/07, Oliver Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm looking to eventually upgrade my home network to all gigabit so I'm
going to start by purchasing a few NICs for some old servers I just
received. I know there are quite a few supported by FreeBS
Steve Bertrand wrote:
Oliver Hansen wrote:
I'm looking to eventually upgrade my home network to all gigabit so I'm
going to start by purchasing a few NICs for some old servers I just
received. I know there are quite a few supported by FreeBSD6 which I
found ( http://www.f
atively cheap
'upgrade' to GigE equipment in the home.
Just make sure you're not still using that old Cat3 cable ;)
Steve
I could not have put it as detailed as Steve but yes it's when copying
several gigs of images or video that I wish for gigabit
Howard Jones wrote:
Oliver Hansen wrote:
I'm looking to eventually upgrade my home network to all gigabit so
I'm going to start by purchasing a few NICs for some old servers I
just received. I know there are quite a few supported by FreeBSD6
which I found (
http://www.freebsd.or
Oliver Hansen wrote:
I'm looking to eventually upgrade my home network to all gigabit so
I'm going to start by purchasing a few NICs for some old servers I
just received. I know there are quite a few supported by FreeBSD6
which I found (
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.0R/hardware
) but
I'm wondering if there is any real benefit in buying a $40 or $50 NIC
like the Netgear GA311 or just get a $20 NIC like the D-Link DFE-530TX+.
The use will probably be a firewall, proxy, file server, and DVR.
<http://www.EagleBit.com/Netgear_GA311_Gigabit_PCI_Card_p/eb-400-00357.htm&g
ks up just fine after
installing the drivers. I did a writeup of the process which you can find at
http://opensourcecommunity.org/2007/08/01/my-experience-building-nas-server-home-part-3
Let me know if you need more information than that. It's still fresh in my mind
