Re: OT: Which Gigabit ethernet card?

From: Eric Weigle (ehw@lanl.gov)
Date: Fri Dec 20 2002 - 16:13:42 EST

FWIW-

We've used three types of GigE cards; old Alteon AceNIC (Tigon 2),
Broadcom/Tigon 3, and the el-cheapo 32 bit Intel e1000s. The Tigon 3 gives
the best performance, but the difference (600Mbps vs 750Mbps 'real-life'
performance) is generally not worth the extra cost if it's only going to be
serving NFS or something-- you probably won't be able to detect the difference.

GigE is now commodity. Check out pricewatch.
        (http://www.pricewatch.com/1/211/3732-1.htm)

-Eric 

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