[geeks] WANTED: gigE controller for Solaris x86

[Joshua Boyd]

On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 04:31:50PM -0400, David Muran-de Assereto wrote:
> On May 3, 2008, at 15:58 , Joshua Boyd wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 04:01:11PM -0400, David Muran-de Assereto  
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Netgear GA311 works fine in Solaris 10 x86 or SPARC, and reportedly
> >> supports jumbo frames.
> >
> > What is the performance of the GA311 compared to Syskonnect, Broadcom,
> > or Intel cards?  Currently I've been sticking with the latter three
> > brands, but only because I heard they were faster and more CPU  
> > friendly
> > than Netgear or 3Com cards.
> 
> I don't really know; I only have one Intel card, and I can't get good  
> metrics off it because it's in the household server under load  
> constantly.
> I know it seems to perform comparably, and is officially supported.

Well, they aren't much money to use to find out.

Thanks for the heads up.