On Thursday, June 6th, 2024 at 1:08 PM, Martin <[email protected]> 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.
> 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.
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.
> Thanks in advance.
