Subject: Re: low-cost Gigabit card recommendations?
To: None <tech-net@NetBSD.org>
From: Jeff Rizzo <riz@NetBSD.org>
List: tech-net
Date: 04/25/2006 09:00:36
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David Young wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 12:06:25AM -0700, Jeff Rizzo wrote:
>  =20
>> In general, avoid re(4) like the plague.  They _are_ cheap, though, an=
d
>> they'll work in a pinch.  sk(4) seems to work pretty well for me, and
>>    =20
>
> What is wrong with re(4)?
>
> Dave
>
>  =20
I've had various problems with them - the one I can recall offhand is
claiming to support an MTU of 9000, while I was only ever able to get
them to pass about 7000 bytes.  That said, I have a desktop machine in
which re(4) is the main card, and it seems to work well enough for a
light load.

+j



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