[Cialug] gigabit ethernet

[Aaron Porter]

On 8/23/05, Dave J. Hala Jr. <dave at 58ghz.net> wrote:
> I've had really good luck using intel gb cards with Linux. If you do a
> search on froogle, you can find them new really cheap.

Be careful with that. There are Intel Server and Intel Workstation
cards, you'll never hit a full gig with the workstation cards -- or
anything running 32bit pci @33mhz. I tend to recomend the Broadcom tg3
based cards, they work very well and are pretty cheap (we've got
something like 300 tg3's deployed). SysKonnect makes some nice cards
that offload some of the tcp overhead from the CPU, but they cost qute
a bit more.

You should be careful about picking a switch too. Not sure what size
rollout you're talking about, but on the SOHO side the Linksys SD2008
works fantastically well for it's price, but we've had a few Allied
Telesyn switches that won't break ~225mb/s.