 lumaPremium
join:2004-08-17
Port Coquitlam, BC | reply to pflog
Re: pfsense recommended NIC 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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 CabalPremium
join:2007-01-21
Austin, TX
 ·Suddenlink
| 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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Interested in open source engine management for your Subaru? |
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lumaPremium
join:2004-08-17
Port Coquitlam, BC | 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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 sporkmedrop the crantini and move it, sisterPremium,MVM
join:2000-07-01
Morristown, NJ
·Optimum Online
| 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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| go for the intel cards the cheaper nic put a strain on your cpu reducing throughput. |
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