[rescue] Small Cheap Linux Board??

nate at portents.com nate at portents.com
Mon Dec 21 11:00:19 CST 2009


> Broadcom NICs (BNX2) seem to be pretty good as well.  It looks like
> they're about 1/2 the price of Intel PCI-E Gb desktop cards.  Don't know
> about Solaris/OSX support, but they have always been pretty solid under
> Linux. See: http://search.ebay.com/360213611553

Back in the PowerPC days, Apple used Broadcom quite often in the high-end
machines (XServe and such).  Wouldn't surprise me if they've switched to
Intel NICs now that they use their CPUs/motherboards.

- Nate



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