reliable gigabit NICs for fedora?

[Albert Graham]

On 08/04/2009 02:41 AM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> I see just enough complaints about various gigabit network
> adapters in various versions of linux that I'm slightly
> leery of just buying whatever I can find and slapping it
> in the system :-).
>
> Anyone using gigabit (and actually using the bandwidth
> too :-) who can recommend some adapters that work well
> in fedora 11?
>
> I've got PCI as well as PCIE 1x slots available (PCI
> only in some systems though).
>
>    

If Jumbo frames are important to you, choose your hardware carefully, as 
some Gigabit nics (including some from Intel) cannot handle jumbo frames 
and some can but not full size i.e. <9k).

Some examples (a bit old bit demonstrates a point).
http://www.uoregon.edu/~joe/jumbo-clean-gear.html

<gripe>
For example, I recently purchased an Aopen MiniPC MP965-D, and it cannot 
do Jumbo Frames at all :(  these particular devices are _extremely_ 
Linux unfriendly.
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