Wednesday, June 05, 2024

Re: Recommendations for 2.5G NIC

On 6.6.2024. 6:08, sub@skolma.com wrote:
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> On Thursday, June 6th, 2024 at 1:08 PM, Martin <iio7@protonmail.com> wrote:
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>> I am about to upgrade a network from 1G to 2.5G and a couple
>> of boxes needs new NICs.
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> mee too.
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>> Any recommendations for NICs with good driver support on OpenBSD?
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>> It would be nice it the cards also run well on FreeBSD and Linux, if
>> you happen to know that, as a couple of boxes on the network run that
>> and I can perhaps stick to the same card, but it's not a requirement.
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> i am also interested in others' answers.
> Just did a 'man -k "ethernet device" and looking through the list. some 2.5 called out, however some 10g ones run at multi gig.
> the intel 'igx' 225/226 adapters are available in pc/nucs/odroid etc.. but assuming you wanted PCI addin cards intel will be the most cross platform 'just works' choice.
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> i also bought 2 cablematters 2.5g usb3/c adapters to test out and seemed to work. i think they used the realtek 'ure' driver.
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>> Thanks in advance.
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Hi,

man igc

DESCRIPTION
The igc driver supports Intel I225/I226 series Ethernet devices.

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