luma
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join:2004-08-17
Ottawa, ON
 ·surpasshosting
 ·Rogers Hi-Speed
| reply to leibold
Re: pfsense recommended NIC
the DFE-570TX is a nice card but with a ~250$ price tag it would be a bit difficult to convince the wife :P
I am just looking for something half decent, it does not have to be server class top of the line. as long as it is pretty good and reliable and lasts a year or 2.
Thanks for the opignon though that is a nice card.
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deblin
Dark Side of the Moon
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join:2001-09-01
Middletown, DE
| I would get em cards (Intel 10/100/1000). They are excellent and well supported. If you're on a budget, get Intel 10/100 cards. But if you want to plan ahead if/when you'll want gigE on the LAN side, look at em cards.
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luma
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join:2004-08-17
Ottawa, ON
·surpasshosting
·Rogers Hi-Speed
| ya I was looking at some EM cards but I don't see the point in spending the extra few dollars.
I have gigabit at home but this will be a router that will route 16megabits of data maximum. the machine won't be used for anything else except as a router. Unless rogers really really upgrades my connection :P
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deblin
Dark Side of the Moon
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join:2001-09-01
Middletown, DE
| Just figured if you wound up using it as a file server later on, you'd save yourself from having to buy a gigE card then. But fxp (Intel 10/100) should be fine in the near term. 
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luma
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join:2004-08-17
Ottawa, ON
·surpasshosting
·Rogers Hi-Speed
| I am a geek I already have a file server
I use FreeNAS for the fileserver
going to use PFsense (for dual wan) on the router.
I am probably going to go with a soekris type small router later on with pfsense but the wife won't let me buy one just now
I might go gigabit right now anyways and later on use the cards as spares.
which model of card for intel/1000 is recommended? from newegg or something.
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deblin
Dark Side of the Moon
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Middletown, DE | I have the Desktop adapters I think, and they perform great. But, I'm a cheap ass
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luma
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Ottawa, ON
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·Rogers Hi-Speed
| ya I am going to use the desktop adapters as well
my server (if you remember the chat we had about performance with freebsd 7 and mysql) has 3 intel pro/1000 server adapters. they are super nice but I rather not pay the price just for a cheap router.
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deblin
Dark Side of the Moon
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Middletown, DE
| Hrm the prices are more expensive than I remember paying, so perhaps these cards are better than what I have. But here's what I'd recommend from newegg:
»www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a···33106123
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luma
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Ottawa, ON | I can live with 33 dollars compared to the lovely DFE570 (which would be nice to have though!)
I will talk to my computer guy in town and see if I can get a deal (need 3 after all)
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Cabal
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join:2007-01-21
Boston, MA
| I recommend the $33 Intel 1000GT (em) cards, I've bought a bunch recently and their performance and support is great. The driver is also regularly updated and the maintainer is an Intel employee and a mailing list regular.
I've been happy with the 3com 905-series (xl) cards in the past, but had some problems with watchdog timeouts under recent 6.x release of FreeBSD with otherwise good hardware (no connection problems, just daily log spam).
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luma
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Ottawa, ON | Thanks Cabal,
Appreciate the info!
I think I am going to go for the intel a lot of folks seem to really like them.
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sporkme
drop the crantini and move it, sister
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join:2000-07-01
Morristown, NJ
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| said by luma  :I think I am going to go for the intel a lot of folks seem to really like them. The fxps are, and as long as I've been using FBSD (2.1.6), have been rock-solid. Agreed that that rls are 'teh suck'. The other cheapies are good for an application like this, but under real load the hardware is really lacking.
There's some very interesting reading in many of the manpages for the cheap-o chipsets. |
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index1489
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join:2004-03-12
Chino, CA
clubs:   | go for the intel cards the cheaper nic put a strain on your cpu reducing throughput. |
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