[wellylug] Gigabit Ethernet NIC recommendation
pcreso at pcreso.com
pcreso at pcreso.com
Sun Jul 3 15:48:17 NZST 2011
Most cheap brands produce several versions of the same card, sometimes with completely different chipsets. So recommending by brand/model may not actually help you.
Better to go by chipset instead.
The intel Pro chipsets are well supported. Any modern Realtek chipset based card should work out of the box. Not the best chipset or driver around, and can be a bit heavier on cpu loading than other, more elegant (& expensive) solutions, but generally reliable. More recommended for a client rather than serious server system.
The Digital Tulip chipset is better, now owned by Intel, & works well, the Via Rhine is another low end one that also works well with Linux.
See:
http://www.fefe.de/linuxeth/
http://www.linuxquestions.org/hcl/index.php/cat/10
Some cheaper cards that work OK:
TP Link TG 3269
Dlink DFE-530TX (Realtek)
DFE-530TX+ (Via Rhine)
Cheers,
Brent Wood
--- On Sun, 7/3/11, David Antliff <david.antliff at gmail.com> wrote:
From: David Antliff <david.antliff at gmail.com>
Subject: [wellylug] Gigabit Ethernet NIC recommendation
To: "Wellington Linux Users Group" <wellylug at lists.wellylug.org.nz>
Date: Sunday, July 3, 2011, 12:47 PM
Hello,
Can anyone recommend an affordable (i.e. cheap), discrete, PCI,
10/100/1000 Mbit ethernet interface card that works *flawlessly* with
Linux (Ubuntu 32bit & 64bit) please?
Ideally I'm after one that has a driver built into the kernel, rather
than separate drivers.
There seem to be a number of low-cost brands. TP-Link cards are pretty
cheap but I don't know how well they work with Linux. Does anyone have
any experience with cheap cards?
I need a card that isn't going to chew up an unnecessary number of CPU
cycles, as the intended host is not particularly powerful (~ 1 GHz).
Since gigabit ethernet is not new, I would hope that most cards simply
work OOTB.
Thank you,
-- David.
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