Recommendations for cheap PCI-E network adapter ?

[Valeri Galtsev]

On 01/02/18 14:38, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
> 
> I need to buy a PCI-E ethernet card.  It won't really matter if it
> is 10/100/1000 or just 10/100 but it has to work with FreeBSD at a
> minimum.  It would be Nice if it was also supported by Linux and
> Windoze7, but that isn't really critical.

I have Intel and Broadcom ethernet chips on several servers that run 
FreeBSD. They are supported under Linux and MS Widows as well.

Valeri

> 
> I'm a serious cheapskate, so I'd like to spend as little as possible.
> I don't need anything super-deluxe.  Whatever is cheapest will be fine,
> even if the performance is only so-so.
> 
> Recommendations would be appreciated.
> 
> 
> P.S.  The small amount of research I just now did suggests that Realtek
> based cards should be avoided, but one reviewer said that the Rosewill
> RC-411v3 works just fine on Ubuntu, so I'm not sure what to think about
> Realtek-based cards now.  The price is right (for me) on the Rosewill
> RC-411v3, but various online threads (relating to Realtek chips) give
> me pause...
> 
> https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/60033/
> 
> https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/55861/
> 
> I really can't see blowing fifty bucks on a simple, low-end ethernet card,
> but everything inexpensive seems to be Realtek-based. :-(
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