[Cialug] Gigabit NICs

[Nathan C. Smith]

Intel is a great choice.  I switched from embedded Realtek to Intel and saw
a nice improvement.

I think the drivers have improved for all the gigabit cards now that they
are more plentiful.  I had a lot of problems with a Gigabit netgear card
under RH9, but it works great with Ubuntu.

-Nate

> -----Original Message-----
> From: jcbailey at code0.net [mailto:jcbailey at code0.net] 
> Sent: Monday, November 13, 2006 6:19 PM
> To: cialug at cialug.org
> Subject: [Cialug] Gigabit NICs
> 
> Everyone-
> 
> I'm looking for a suggestion for gigabit NICs for server use 
> under Linux.
> We're currently a NT/2k/2k3 shop on the Windows side and a 
> Debian/Ubuntu shop on the Linux side. We're looking for a 
> solid NIC that works with the stock kernels in Sarge and 
> Dapper. We have used the Linksys EG1032v2 before with few 
> issues, but Linksys has changed to the RTL8169 chipset in the 
> v3. We're looking for a solid card that won't change chipsets 
> during the lifespan of the card. I've looked at the Intel 
> PRO/1000 GT cards and they seem pretty good for 
> price/performance, but I haven't had any experience with 
> them. Does anyone have any opinions for server NICs?
> 
> 
> Jon
> 
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