Ben Francom wrote: > On 5/5/07, *David* > wrote: > > What are the recommendations for switches and NIC's? Also, how can > I tell > if my current ethernet cables can hang with the new speeds? > > > I recently upgraded at home too. The NIC I got for the Linux Boxen was > a Hawking HGA32T. The drivers are included in the kernel nowadays. My > Mac (or should I say Debian PPC) already had a gigabit card embedded. I > also got a cheap D-Link DGS-105 Switch. They are working fine. > Checkout this link on Wikipedia: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigabit_Ethernet > It says you can run Gigabit speeds on cat5. You may be able to get away > with this in a home office, but I wouldn't risk it in the real world. > YMMV though. > I have a D-Link DGS-1008D switch I got from newegg some time ago ($40 or so). It's worked well for me. I've purchased the cheapest gig-e PCI cards I could find. The first ones I got (Zonet from egghead) were about $30. I was (reluctantly) in Fry's last week and saw (and purchased) a few Trendnet PCI gig-e cards for $13. They configured themselves on CentOS5 with no problem. I've seen gig-e work on cat5 cable, but barely (not well at all). Be sure to use 5e or 6. HTH -- -Eric 'shubes' --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss