Best 1Gbe NIC

Hi list,

I know this is a rather classic question, but I have searched a lot on this again recently, and I just cannot find any conclusive up to date information?

I am looking to buy the best 1Gbe NIC possible for OpenBSD and the only official comments I can find relate to 3COM for ISA, or community consensus towards Chelsio for 10Gbe.

I know Intel works ok and I've used the i350's before, but my understanding is that Intel still doesn't provide the documentation for their NICs and so the emX driver is reverse engineered.

And if I remember correctly some offload features were also disabled in the emX driver a while back as some functions where found to be insecure on die and so it was deemed safer to bring the logic back on CPU.

So I'm looking for the best 1Gbe NIC that supports the most offloading/best driver support/performance etc.

Thanks, Andy.

PS; could we update the official supported hardware lists? ;)
All the best.


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