* Chris Cappuccio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-05-05 10:40]: > Henning Brauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > realtek gigE is easily better than 3com, but then, what is not? > > I'd look for cheapish sk(4)s. there are some. they are pretty darn good. > funny, most of the cheapish sks i've run into are under the 3com/marvell label
yup, seems like after the xl(4) disaster they gave up designing ethernet chips :) > the prices of the realtek gigabit cards are great, but re can't do jumbo > frames > large enough for a full 8k nfs packet. and to be fair one should mention that jumbo is kinda useless until there is some kind of link-level mtu negotiation. -- BS Web Services, http://www.bsws.de/ OpenBSD-based Webhosting, Mail Services, Managed Servers, ... Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity. (Dennis Ritchie)
