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AcidTone

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Hey all I am looking upgrade the Nic in two of my Debian boxes at work to Gigabit. I was wonder what types of card you guys have had the best luck with. I had a Marvell at home that I had lots of issues with and before I go and order something I wanted to be sure it will be trustworthy.

The cards will be going into my Spamassassin/Dansguardian box and my Samba server with my anti virus on it.
 
I like the Intel as well...

However, realize that if your using a normal (non PCI-X) PCI bus, that at most you're looking at 500Mbit or so. Just something to keep in mind.
 
Another vote for Intel Pro/1000-based NICs. I had an onboard Pro/1000 in my Abit IC7-G, and I just put a PCI Pro/1000 GT into my new box yesterday. It's working great.
 
Great thanks guys!

cjcox said:
I like the Intel as well...

However, realize that if your using a normal (non PCI-X) PCI bus, that at most you're looking at 500Mbit or so. Just something to keep in mind.
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As of right now the Spamassassin and Dans guardian are running on seperate boxes (DG is in testing atm) and I am looking to consolidate them into one box. I am just going to put gig in it "incase" the network load increases past the point of 100meg.

Right now I am monitoring CPU/Memory usage and bandwith in and out of both boxes to see if its going to work for me.
 
I've had fantastic luck with the Intel 1000/PT dual port cards, they are a dream to work with. As far as built in chipsets go, the nforce ones arn't half bad, and I doubt any people will manage to push most onboard chipsets to the limits. I am pretty sure a while back I posted a thread detailing my 4gbit bonded attempts, I could get peaks around 3.5gbit if I recall correctly, but 2gbit is very feasible with Intel cards. Thats probably a bit more than you need, but its always nice to dream :)
 
Broadcom Gigabit Xtreme works great for me on Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, & RHEL.
 
If you are going to get a Pro/1000, get the pci-e PT adapter. INTEL officially supports replacing the pxe boot rom with an iscsi boot rom for san usage :)

This is the next nic I am going to get!
 
You know what - how do you know if your NIC is operating at gigabit speeds and being retarded to 100Mbps? I have a Gigabit LAN card and it works as I have connection to the internet from my PC and I can transfer files across the LAN but how do I know it's 1000Mbps?
 
Carloswill said:
You know what - how do you know if your NIC is operating at gigabit speeds and being retarded to 100Mbps? I have a Gigabit LAN card and it works as I have connection to the internet from my PC and I can transfer files across the LAN but how do I know it's 1000Mbps?
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Do you get more than 12MB/second ? Then for sure it's running at gigabit.
 
Robstar said:
Do you get more than 12MB/second ? Then for sure it's running at gigabit.
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You also need to make sure you have a Gigabit switch/router... it will default to 10/100 if that is as fast as it can go... plus you're only going to be able to go as fast as your weakest link... if your transferring from a 100 machine and your a 1000... it's only going to be 100. ;)

Anyway, back on topic... Yes, the Intel PRO/1000 series rock socks off in Linux, most newer Kernels have support for them, and if not, Intel has support for most distros on their website... Well maybe SuSE and Red Hat, lol.

Also, are you running deb 4? It was recently released, and maybe has better support for your existing NICs? I've been using Ubuntu (debian based) and it's been fine with a multitude of NICs I've thrown at it. Especially the Intel PRO/1000's.
 
Well im using 4 (etch) on my test DG box and this summer during the slower months (work for a public school district) I am upgrading my SA box to 4 so by the time I actually do get around to installing the cards they will be running on 4.

After playing with Etch on my DG box I decied it was finally time to make the move to Linux at home so I am not running Deb on my home machine :) and so far it is great. Was a bit of a pain getting wine working right but now that it is I am really happy.

Now i just need to get a few more of my essential apps running.
 
Robstar said:
Do you get more than 12MB/second ? Then for sure it's running at gigabit.
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I was hoping there was a more specific approach to locating this info. I loaded ethtool

Code: 
#ethtool eth0

and that shows me the operating speed of the hardware...
 
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