Which USB or PCMCIA NIC

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balanga

Can anyone recommend either a PCMCIA or USB Gigabit NIC?

I'm trying to turn a laptop into a router and need a second NIC.

Apparently a single NIC will suffice if used with a VLAN but I can't get my head round configuring a VLAN.
 
How would I go about finding out if anyone is working on developing FreeBSD 1Gb drivers for the hardware which is currently available?
 
FWIW, I have only ever seen 10 / 100 Mbps PCMCIA NICs. I don't think the PCMCIA bus is fast enough. And for usb, I think you are going to need USB3 if you want 1 Gbps performance (throughput) as opposed to 1 Gbps link speed...
 
tingo said:
FWIW, I have only ever seen 10 / 100 Mbps PCMCIA NICs. I don't think the PCMCIA bus is fast enough. And for usb, I think you are going to need USB3 if you want 1 Gbps performance (throughput) as opposed to 1 Gbps link speed...
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Actually, I recently bought a PCMCIA adapter which is labelled as ST Lab Gigabit Ethernet (32-BIT) Cardbus Adapter. Unfortunately it doesn't work with FreeBSD even though FreeBSD does recognise it.

Interestingly I have just connected a 1Gb USB adapter to my laptop - a ThinkPad X61 - (it didn't work previously with other laptops) and it started working, so I guess my search is over.

How would I go about measuring performance?
 
balanga said:
Interestingly I have just connected a 1Gb USB adapter to my laptop - a ThinkPad X61 - (it didn't work previously with other laptops) and it started working, so I guess my search is over.
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Note that the raw data bandwidth of USB 2.0 is only 480Mbps.
 
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