Contributed by Dengue on from the fiber dept.
...Unfortunately, some expensive brand adapters (such as the 3com XL series) are not much better than the cheap adapters. One favourite 10/100Mbps adapter is the Intel EtherExpress PRO/100.Of course that doesn't directly address my question, but I was considering trying out the Intel PRO/1000F (which looks like the sole fiber interface available from Intel). An interface capable of running at gigabit speeds is more than we need (at the moment), but making the (gross) assumption that things Intel are stable I thought it might be a better bet than just picking something at random."
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By Anonymous Coward () on
The lge driver based cards (the driver coming with 3.0 and up) is untested and could really use some testing, any feedback provided is quite useful.
By Anonymous Coward () on
The 10 meg ones are usually cheap.
By Blake Willis () blake at two one one two dot net on www.2112.net
If you just need to light up some fiber cheaply, go for a media converter such as those available from WizLan . They do multimode 100bFX up to 15km, and single mode to 100km. 100bFX NICs are generally not worth messing around with anymore.
If you need speed and don't care about price, SysKonnect makes seriously powerful 64 bit 66 mhz PCI GigE cards that reportedly work quite well with OpenBSD ( man sk(8) , though I haven't tested them myself. They're available in SX for multimode fiber and LX (up to 15 km) for single mode. They have dual port cards as well, though they're hella expensive.
By Richard () on http://cat5fetish.net
Much like Intel does for all their networking division components, and completely unlike most other vendors, Intel steadfastly refuse to provide us with documentation. We have talked to about five technical people who are involved in the development of those products. They all want us to have documentation. They commend us on what we have done. But their hands are tied by management who does not perceive a benefit to themselves for providing documentation. Forget about Intel. (If you want to buy gigabit ethernet hardware, we recommend anything else... for the same reason: most drivers we have for Intel networking hardware were written without documentation).
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By Andreas Holzinger () a.holzinger@firepower.at on www.firepower.at
I know the Intel Ether Express is a 100 MBit card, but its the best card out there for this kinda job.
Take care
Andreas (from the now cold Austria :-)