On Tue, 25 Jun 2019, at 01:05, Thomas Mueller wrote: > > Hi Tom > > https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/config-network-setup.html > > > NDIS may do what you want but it may suck. > > > In terms of time vs effort a 15$ USB Ethernet dongle is going to be your > > best result. If this is a server consider getting a 2nd hand intel NIC. I > > can get a 4 port pci intel Gb for under 100$ years which is more than > > sufficient. > > Lower spec cards will be even cheaper. > > > There are references on the forums and mailing lists with ones that work > > for both USB and iNICs. > > > Dave > > NDIS is not dependable in my experience, and I have had instances of > the kernel failing to compile with NDIS.
Not surprised to hear that. > How dependable are USB Ethernet dongles to work with FreeBSD? I got this one which I use for my laptop when normal FreeBSD wifi isn't sufficient "works for me": EU4306: https://www.edimax.com/edimax/merchandise/merchandise_detail/data/edimax/global/network_adapters_usb_adapters/eu-4306/ axge(4): https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=axge It's sufficient for doing make install over NFS and sending/receiving full zpool dumps, I can't speak for performance nor cpu usage but then you get what you pay for :-). I'm reasonably sure that you can't expect server-level performance out of this, and an intel PCI nic(like i350 or i210) is surely a better bet. A+ Dave _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
