gigabit ethernet?

Gijs info at boer-software-en-webservices.nl
Wed Nov 28 18:45:05 UTC 2007


John Austin wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 22:31 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote:
>   
>> They are running cat6 and setting up gigabit ethernet
>> at work. Anyone know of any special PCI gigabit NICs
>> to avoid in Fedora, or do they all mostly work like
>> pretty much every other kind of more ordinary NIC?
>>
>>     
>
> I ordered two D-Link DGE-530T yesterday - I will
> report back !!!
> I understand that they support jumbo frames (9000) and VLAN tags.
>
> Then comes the setting up of jumbo frames, VLAN's, VLAN tags and how to
> configure dynamic DNS with VLANs !!!!
>
> John
>
>   
Don't order NX1101 from Asus. They do work, but you'll have a hard time
getting the driver to work in the first place.
And second, there's something wrong with multicast with that driver. So
it's not recommendable :)

I'd suggest Intel NICs, those usually work without any incident.
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