[Tfug] Re: question 2

[Tom Rini]

On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 01:40:58PM -0700, 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.

If you're going to do gige-over-coper, check out:
http://www.cs.uni.edu/~gray/gig-over-copper/

For all sorts of benchmarks and whatnot (under Linux).  If you're doing
fiber, I _think_ some of the cards do fibre or have a close relative
which just adds/switches to fibre.

-- 
Tom Rini (TR1265)
http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/