Question:
What Network cards are supported by OSXS?
Answer
The Apple 10/100 Ethernet PCI card is well supported and has excellent performance under OSXS. No extra drivers needed.These can be found at MacResQ or on eBay.
Farallon (now Proxim) Fast EtherTX 10/100 PCI Plus. No drivers needed.
"I have an Intel Ether-express Pro in my OSXS 10.1 machine, it recognized it right away. Previously I tried a cheap Netgear card, but no, go on that one."
Asante make a full line of cards and drivers including Gigabit Ethernet cards.
There are other cards that supported based upon OS X's FreeBSD heritage, but you must be careful about you use:
> I'm using a D-Link (for PC's) 10/100 NIC. They cost much less. D-Link
> doesn't make Mac drivers. Those NICs use a RealTek chipset. RealTek makes
> Mac drivers...
One thing to note about this kind of NIC ...
From the FreeBSD driver (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/pci/if_rl.c?rev=1.38.2.9&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup):
"The RealTek 8139 PCI NIC redefines the meaning of 'low end.' This is probably the worst PCI ethernet controller ever made...It's impossible given this rotten design to really achieve decent performance at 100Mbps, unless you happen to have a 400Mhz PII or some equally overmuscled CPU to drive it."
So, while these work fine on a workstation, or a machine that is going to sit behind a 'slow' connection (T1, cable, dsl, isdn), I wouldn't want to use it on a 'real' server.
TeamASA Stallion GigaBit Fibreoptic card. A driver for 10.1 and 10.2
is provided and works excelent. I am able to saturate the drive
performance of an Xserver dual 1GHz server. It seams the card could do
more than an Xserve with an IDE raid0 is able to handle.
The sustained write thruput to the Xserver is around 50Mb/sec.
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