Tom Horsley wrote:
I see just enough complaints about various gigabit network adapters in various versions of linux that I'm slightly leery of just buying whatever I can find and slapping it in the system :-). Anyone using gigabit (and actually using the bandwidth too :-) who can recommend some adapters that work well in fedora 11? I've got PCI as well as PCIE 1x slots available (PCI only in some systems though).
We used the Intel Gig NICs (both copper and glass) with pretty good results using the e1000 driver. Can't recall the model numbers, but we've used several. The Broadcoms worked OK, too (using the both the tg3 and bcm54 (now bmx2x) drivers. Note this was back when I was still associated with VitalStream (before the disastrous Internap buyout and consequent emasculation and evisceration of the streaming side of the business). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer ricks@xxxxxxxx - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 22643734 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - Never put off 'til tommorrow what you can forget altogether! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
