Rich Teer <rich.teer@rite-group.com> writes:

>I'm thinking of upgrading my home network to GBE (currently it's
>100 base T). Half of my important machines already have built GBE
>interfaces, but two of them don't so I need to get a couple of GBE
>NICs. If I had the $$$ I'd just get a pair of Sun Gigaswift UTPs,
>but I don't so I'm open to alternatives. Can anyone recommend a
>suitable NIC to me? The card MUST be supported by Solaris 10 (and
>preferably Solaris 9), and must support network booting. Support
>for SPARC is essential (the machines I'm looking at upgrading are
>a Sun Blade 1000 and an E220R); support for x86 is desirable but
>not mandatory.


Good luck finding a *bootable* GigE card for SPARC without a Sun brand.

Casper
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