[geeks] WANTED: gigE controller for Solaris x86

[David Muran-de Assereto]

On May 3, 2008, at 15:58 , Joshua Boyd wrote:

> On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 04:01:11PM -0400, David Muran-de Assereto  
> wrote:
>
>> Netgear GA311 works fine in Solaris 10 x86 or SPARC, and reportedly
>> supports jumbo frames.
>
> What is the performance of the GA311 compared to Syskonnect, Broadcom,
> or Intel cards?  Currently I've been sticking with the latter three
> brands, but only because I heard they were faster and more CPU  
> friendly
> than Netgear or 3Com cards.

I don't really know; I only have one Intel card, and I can't get good  
metrics off it because it's in the household server under load  
constantly.
I know it seems to perform comparably, and is officially supported.

David Muran-de Assereto
dmuran at tuad.org

Sapere Aude!

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