Ben Francom wrote:
> On 5/5/07, *David* <daz@damnetwork.net <mailto:daz@damnetwork.net>> 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'
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