[Tfug] question 2

[Harry McGregor]

On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Matt Stump wrote:

>     anyone have experience with gigabit nic's.  we just got the go ahead
> to move all of our file servers and power users to gigabit.  we have
> already choosen the switches (all netgear) but we are looking for
> recomendations on nics.  they have to work with both linux and win2k,
> and for the sake of being lazy i would like the support to be in the
> kernel (hate patching the kernel).  thanks again.

I have only used them under novell, but we are currently using 3c996T
cards, 64Bit PCI-X support (133MHz bus, down compabile to 33MHz 32bit
even).

I have one waiting to go into a server right now, that I can test under
Linux for you.

We are using HP Procurve 4000M switches with Gigabit cards.  The only
problem with netgear (love them, use a lot of them), is right now, I don't
think they have any managed switches.

The 4000M is not really that expensive, and can support up to 8 Gigabit
ports per chassis.

		Harry


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