[geeks] WANTED: gigE controller for Solaris x86

[Lionel Peterson]

Office depot had them for $10 two weeks ago - we discussed it here at  
the time...

Lionel

On May 3, 2008, at 4:26 PM, Joshua Boyd <jdboyd at jdboyd.net> wrote:

> On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 04:31:50PM -0400, David Muran-de Assereto  
> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Well, they aren't much money to use to find out.
>
> Thanks for the heads up.
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