I'm going to have to buy a couple ethernet cards. As gigabit has
become affordable, it wouldn't make any sense to buy more
100mbit cards. Which gigabit card should I choose ? My criteria
are:
- relatively cheap,
- fit for diskless machines, booting over the network, which
probably means "supported by Etherboot and having a socket
for a boot ROM",
- supported now in 2.4,
- must work on a three-year old motherboard like the Abit
VH6T (vanilla PCI),
- trouble-free, i.e. not like the 3C905 that default to
half-duplex,
- be able to talk to 100base-TX hubs and adapters until I
upgrade the rest of my network.
The models that fit the "relatively cheap" part are, as far as I
can see:
NetGear GA302T
NetGear GA311FS
Peabird PEAB-GIGA-32T
D-link DGE-530T
Intel PRO/1000 MT desktop
Which would you recommend ?
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André Majorel <URL:http://www.teaser.fr/~amajorel/>
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