RE: Gigabit cards

> Wendall Cada wrote:
> > I'm looking for recommendations for the best price
versus quality
> > gigabit ethernet cards. Particularly interested in
stability as they
> > will be used in a production mail server and
production web server.
> > 
> > Wendall
> > 
> 
> Broadcom or Intel... not that there are really any
other 
> choices. Used 
> both, never had a problem with either. Some cheap
Broadcom 
> cards can't 
> do jumbo frames which you're very unlikely to use.
That's 
> pretty much it.

I've had great luck with the Intel cards: singles, duals and
quads. All
work great. The tg3 module works for everything else except
the stupid
PCIExpress card (Belkin) I have for my laptop. That uses the
sky2 module
and it worked once, I'm sure, maybe even twice. But for
servers, the
Intels rock. You may even want to try a newer kernel's
offloading
capabilities with some of the cards. 

Bill
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