Hello all, I know there has been a ton of discussion in the past about the failings of many different Broadcom chips, but I can't find anything about this particular one (and also I figure that it makes sense to ask again every so often to see if anything has changed).
I am putting together a firewall using a Lenovo small-form-factor desktop, so I am looking for a low-profile PCI-express dual-gigabit card. There are tons of such cards available on eBay, and I have had great success with Intel cards (and HP cards that use Intel NICs) from eBay before. However, this time around I see a lot of HP cards there with these Broadcom 5709 chips. The particular model I see is the NC382T. Does anyone have any experience with or knowledge about these chips? The connection is 100Mbit fiber (Verizon), and there are two VLANs for office and visitor traffic, as well as a separate physical network for the FIOS set-top boxes (that will use the on-board non-gigabit card). I know that the PC can handle that traffic, but that's only true if the card works. An additional followup question: the datasheet for the card says that it supports TCP offload. I have also seen TCP Offload settings in the pfSense web interface. Will the claimed "support" work with pfSense, or is this one of the card types that doesn't work? Thanks, Moshe -- Moshe Katz -- mo...@ymkatz.net -- +1(301)867-3732
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