Hi misc@,
I'd be grateful for any recent recommendations or warnings
wrt currently available GigE NICs for core vlanning/routing/filtering.
(Archives contain various previous related threads, but most recent
posts are from a few years ago, so I thought it'd be worthwhile asking
for more recent reports/war-stories).
Context: currently running happily with em(4)s - PRO/1000 QP (82571EB) &
PRO/1000MT QP (82546GB)NICs (1 per subnet), but will shortly be migrating to
SX fibre + ~32 VLANs hosted on the same parent NIC. These will be connected to
Catalyst 3750s for distribution/access (yes, I know...). I could use the Intel
SX NIC closest to our current copper NICs, but now's a good time to consider
alternative cards if they offer better stability/robustness/performance (and
especially if the vendors are playing nice with *BSD). Have heard good things
about sk(4) based cards, but the man page doesn't list the newer sk PCI-Express
cards - especially interested in good/bad reports about these.
If you've any pointers to or warnings away from any specific OpenBSD-
supported GigE fiber cards, I'd be grateful if you'd be willing
to share them...
Thanks,
Sean
