[geeks] WANTED: gigE controller for Solaris x86

[David Muran-de Assereto]

On May 3, 2008, at 14:42 , Shannon Hendrix wrote:

> Since my Dell T105 cannot do jumbo frames, I'm looking for opinions  
> on everyone's favorite gigE controller that has jumbo frame support  
> and excellent Solaris drivers.
>
> I was originally planning to add one to my T105 to give it two  
> network links anyway, though I was hoping to only have to pay for a  
> single port card.
>
> The cheapest dual gigE card I see from Intel with jumbo frame  
> support is $140.
>
> That seems to be the safest bet from everything I've read, and I  
> almost always use Intel ethernet when I can.
>
> However, $140 is a lot more than I had planned to spend, so I  
> wouldn't mind hearing some positive experience with non-Intel gigE  
> cards since they can be found cheaper, or just good leads on cheap  
> Intel cards.
>
> At newegg.com the desktop version of their single-port gigE PCIe  
> cards is $40, the server version is $80, but they appear to be  
> identical outside of the name, and one feature: load balancing.
>
> http://tinyurl.com/6h7sca
>
> All three use the same chipset and look identical, but the server  
> version lists "load balancing" as a feature that let's the card  
> spread its load among multiple CPUs.
>
> Does anyone know if that really helps much?  Is it worth another $40?

Netgear GA311 works fine in Solaris 10 x86 or SPARC, and reportedly  
supports jumbo frames.

David Muran-de Assereto
dmuran at tuad.org

Sapere Aude!

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