Re: Opinions on "best" NIC for high-touch applications

From: George V. Neville-Neil (gnn_at_neville-neil.com)
Date: 04/21/04

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    Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 11:36:10 -0700
To: Chance Whaley <chance@dreamscope.com>

    At Wed, 21 Apr 2004 09:36:45 -0700 (PDT),
    Chance Whaley wrote:
    > I have an application where I am doing quite a bit of high-touch packet
    > fiddling and I am looking for opinions on which "standard" Gb NIC
    > has the best driver support in 5.2 or CURRENT.
    >
    > In my dream world I am looking for something that supports:
    > - IRQ mitigation / polling (absolute must)
    > - PCI-X (absolute must)
    > - HW checksumming
    > - Scatter / Gather
    > - IPsec
    > - Jumbo frames
    > - VLANs
    >
    > Thoughts??
    >

    I think you want the Netear Copper Gigiabit Adapter (GA302T) which is
    well supported in 5.x.

    I don't know if it supports all that you want, but you should check it
    out at least. The driver is if_bge.c.

    Later,
    George
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