gig nic for pci

[stephen price]

I have a sun blade 100 I'd like to get on gig ethernet - does anybody have any third party card recommendations or should I go to e$pay and get a gigaswift pci card?

If anybody has one they want to get rid of - let me know off list.

thanks
steve
ftw tx
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[Lionel Peterson-2]

On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 1:03 PM, stephen price <sd_price@...> wrote:
> I have a sun blade 100 I'd like to get on gig ethernet - does anybody have any
> third party card recommendations or should I go to e$pay and get a gigaswift pci card?

I think Intel cards are down to about $30 on eBay now, and they should
be well supported.

There are some cheaper cards available (seach the geeks or rescue
lists, I've highlighted a few with links to drivers IIRC), but with
Intel so cheap, I'd be hard-pressed to use something else (unless
money is super-tight).

Here's three PCI cards for $27.99 + 9.95 S/H - seller has eight sets
of three available:

http://cgi.ebay.com/lot-of-3-Intel-Pro-1000-GT-Desktop-Gigabit-Adapter_W0QQitemZ320416399971QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item4a9a4e4263

If you can use a PCI-X card (either directly through PCI-X slot or in
a PCI slot with ins hanging over), they are available for $15 & up on
eBay.

If you search "intel pci gigabit PCI" there are a lot of pieces that
should be good (including cheap dual and quad-port devices)...

Realtek are hit-and-miss, but can "work" with third-party drivers.

My advice is Intel.

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[Phil Stracchino-3]

stephen price wrote:
> I have a sun blade 100 I'd like to get on gig ethernet - does anybody have any third party card recommendations or should I go to e$pay and get a gigaswift pci card?
>
> If anybody has one they want to get rid of - let me know off list.

an Intel EEPro-1000 seems to work fine in my U30, for what that's worth.


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[Joshua Boyd]

stephen price wrote:
> I have a sun blade 100 I'd like to get on gig ethernet - does anybody have any third party card recommendations or should I go to e$pay and get a gigaswift pci card?
>
> If anybody has one they want to get rid of - let me know off list.

I have a SysKonnect card that works nicely.

I see that other people recommended Intel cards.  Do they do anything
like CRC offloading and jumbo frames?  I believe that there are some
realtek cards with Solaris/SPARC drivers, but they scare me.
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[Ian Finder]

Realtek == avoid like the plague.

Enough said.

On 10/25/09, Joshua D. Boyd <jdboyd@...> wrote:

> stephen price wrote:
>> I have a sun blade 100 I'd like to get on gig ethernet - does anybody have
>> any third party card recommendations or should I go to e$pay and get a
>> gigaswift pci card?
>>
>> If anybody has one they want to get rid of - let me know off list.
>
> I have a SysKonnect card that works nicely.
>
> I see that other people recommended Intel cards.  Do they do anything
> like CRC offloading and jumbo frames?  I believe that there are some
> realtek cards with Solaris/SPARC drivers, but they scare me.
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