[rescue] Cheap GbE PCI adapter for SPARC/x86/x64 Solaris

Lionel Peterson lionel4287 at verizon.net
Fri Aug 22 10:43:09 CDT 2008


>From: Sevan / Venture37 <venture37 at hotmail.com>
>Date: 2008/08/22 Fri AM 11:32:26 EDT
>To: The Rescue List <rescue at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [rescue] Cheap GbE PCI adapter for SPARC/x86/x64 Solaris

>If you're planning to use 9K Jumbo frames I would steer clear of the Realtek
>chipset cards, according to the re(4) man page on OpenBSD:
>"The RealTek 8169, 8169S and 8110S chips are only capable of transmitting
>Jumbo frames up to 7440 bytes in size."
>
>Though on a single user aka geek network that's still good enough :)

Agreed - a good thing to point out though, thanks.

Lionel



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