* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-05-03 00:44]: > Hello, > I'm thinking about playing with pfsync/carp a bit and for this I will need to > buy few additional NICs. From various notes it seems Gbit Realtek chips might > not be that crappy as their 100Mbit counterprarts (except 8139c+) and the > cards with them seem to even be cheaper than 100Mbit cards from 3Com and > Intel. Now the question is what's better for this deployment/playing? Since > I'd like to learn I'm not in the possition to solve various "strange" or > "instable" hardware issues, hence reluctant to give Realtek a try (e.g. U.S. > Robotics USR997902). Is there anybody here using Realtek 8169(S) based NIC > and satified with them?
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. -- 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)
