Re: Recommended NIC: Gbit Realtek or 100Mbit 3Com/Intel
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 the prices of the realtek gigabit cards are great, but re can't do jumbo frames large enough for a full 8k nfs packet. also, i'm jaded..the only 8169 card i ever bought stopped working right after i rebooted the machine, just two months after the card was put into service. i figured the savings weren't real at that point, this keeps it from even being a respectable 100m card! (to be fair, the failure was probably the cheap ass board and not the realtek chip itself) used sk and em cards on ebay are pretty cheap, and you can find new pull versions from various web sites that specialize in new pull/ refurb parts.
Re: Recommended NIC: Gbit Realtek or 100Mbit 3Com/Intel
* 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)
Re: Recommended NIC: Gbit Realtek or 100Mbit 3Com/Intel
* [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)
Recommended NIC: Gbit Realtek or 100Mbit 3Com/Intel
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? Thanks, Karel
