On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 03:30:09PM -0500, Erik Anderson wrote: > On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 2:43 PM, ED Fochler <soek...@liquidbinary.com> wrote: > > A fair number of old, cheap 1g ethernet cards will work in the > > net5501. Take note of the necessary second notch in the PCI pin > > section on the card. I can absolutely verify that the netgear > > GA311 rev.a1 works. :-) > > > > http://www.amazon.com/NETGEAR-GA311-Gigabit-Ethernet-Adapter/dp/B0001NYJ58 > > > > caveats: gigabit ethernet cards tend to consume a couple of watts > > when working at gbit speeds. In a normal computer you don???t > > notice, but the additional power draw and heat load can be > > significant in a small closed box. > > > > Also you won???t get full gbit out of it. The internal bus for > > PCI and/or memory will limit you. expect < 400mbit for the > > simplest of tasks. > > Great info. Thanks Ed. It does sound like if I need to route at > near-GigE speeds, I'll need to upgrade my board. >
I use the Intel PCI-x GigE cards. In (Free|Open)BSD x86 these cards are handled by the em driver. Although the Net5501 doesn't have a 64bit PCI-x slot the card works in the 32bit PCI slot. I'm forwarding packets at 120Mbit per second with is pedestrian at best and the card generates quite a bit of heat but it works. -- Chris _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
