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.freebsd.org/releases/6.0R/hardware-i386.html#ETHERNET
) 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>
I have a few Netgear GA311's in production, and although I haven't done
any benchmarking, I know that they work rock solid operating atop the re
driver in my backup infrastructure:
backup# uname -a
FreeBSD backup 6.2-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p2 #0: Mon Mar 5
16:57:55 EST 2007
backup# ifconfig
re0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
options=1b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING>
.... I can't speak of D-Link however. Aside from the NIC's, I have found
some performance issues with NetGear GigE managed switches though,
whereas they seem to slowly loose throughput width after a few months
without a reboot.
Steve
Thank you for the info regarding reliability. That is my main concern
along with price. The only thing I still wonder about is features such
as Jumbo Frame, 802.1q, and other support. I gather that every device on
the network needs to support these for them to work generally but are
any of the features really worth it on a modest home network?
--
Oliver Hansen
http://www.oliverhansen.com
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