On 2007/04/15 20:27, Chris C. wrote: > I'm in the need to replace my two 100mbit fxp nic's in my firewall with a > 1000mbit one. The hardware is kinda old. (PIII) > I'm looking for an inexpensive but not bad (so I think no realtek chips) nic. > Have looked at sk and bge, but couldn't find any bge nics at my local > vendors. > So... which driver to go? sk? em?
Modern Realtek re(4) are not really a problem, they do IPv4 TCP checksum offload, HW vlan tagging, and are a better design than the rl(4). They only handle jumbo frames up to 7.5k, but if jumbo support was a big issue you'd probably have mentioned it already (and even 2k would cover many of the reasons you'd want jumbos). I'd still go for the sk(4) if they were the same price - this is fairly possible, unlike em(4) which will almost certainly cost more than re(4) - but don't worry about it, pretty much anything you pick up is likely to work fine.
