Do both the Netgear GA620 and GA620T work?
On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Kenneth D. Merry wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 09:15:00 -0700, Josef Grosch wrote:
> >
> > Simple question:
> >
> > Which Gigabit ethernet card works best with FreeBSD?
>
> Alteon-based boards. This includes Alteon ACEnics, the 3Com 3c985B (which
> has 1MB SRAM), and the Netgear GA620 (which has 512K SRAM).
>
> You can get the Netgear board for about $320, and the copper version of the
> board for about $310 from www.necxdirect.com. The 3Com board is about $680
> from the same place. (You're paying for the extra memory, which can make a
> difference, albeit not an enormous difference. Also, the Windows drivers
> for the Netgear boards don't do jumbo frames. I'm not sure whether the
> 3Com Windows drivers do jumbo frames, but I would guess that they do.)
>
> If you want bandwidth numbers, see:
>
> http://people.freebsd.org/~ken/zero_copy/
>
> Ken
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