[GLLUG] gigabit ethernet

[Matt Graham]

On Friday 21 June 2002 15:30, after a long battle with technology, 
Edward Glowacki wrote:
> Anyone have recommendations on a well-supported gigabit (copper, not
> fiber) ethernet card for Linux?
>
> I googled for a while, but couldn't find enough of the right
> information to make me happy.  The Intel 1000tx card apparently
> requires drivers from Intel (ala, it's not in the linux kernel), so
> that makes me a bit wary...

What pfaffben said wrt most GigE cards.

We've got a couple of Broadcom5700 GigE cards in-house on the firewall 
and the Big Server, and they have been very solid.  Support wasn't in 
the official kernel for a while but the source for the modules was 
freely available, and 2.4.18 has the bcm5700 source in the main tree.

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