Recommendations for cheap PCI-E network adapter ?

[Frank Leonhardt]

On 03/01/2018 21:51, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> Some people cuss at Broadcom, some people swear by them.   I don't own
> any of there cards, but I have never had problems with the inbuilt
> broadcom nics in any of my dell servers.

I've been using Broadcom for years, integrated on Dell motherboards, and 
they're fast and reliable. HOWEVER, there are long-term problems with 
the driver and WoL. If that's not important to you, it doesn't matter. 
They're (theoretically) faster than Realtek and better bang per buck 
than Intel IME.

https://blog.frankleonhardt.com/2013/freebsd-wake-on-lan-and-hp-microservers-wol-compatible-ethernet/

Regards, Frank.