I’m looking for something cost effective for using on a Linux machine running VMs. I’m looking for something tried and tested, very reliable. Ideally, either high speed with few ports or gigabit with more ports (3-5). It would run on a x16 PCIe 4.0 slot, I’m not sure if it’s 16 lanes. (X670e-a secondary x16 slot).
Edit: it must support 802.1q
There are quite a few controllers by Intel and Broadcom that are quad interfaces. Just get something that isn’t 10+ years old. Another option is to get 10Gbe (Intel, Broadcom, Chelsio) and utilize VLANs.
Chelsio T540-BT would be my recommendation. You can get them for $100-150 now days and they are quad port RJ45 10g card that support a lot of offload protocols (which are often missing on Intel NICs)
T540-CR for the SFP+ version
That’s still decently out of budget. I ended up finding a post on r/homelab and picked up a HP NC364T. I may upgrade at some point in the future but for now this’ll do nicely, and it only cost me 35 euros.
Ancient controller/NIC, https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/20720/intel-82571eb-gigabit-ethernet-controller/specifications.html :-/
BCM5719 based ones are also around that price and offers a bit newer functionality
Thanks for the suggestion, not much i could do anyway now but my switch is a HP 2530-24G so I doubt i’d be able to do much with a more feature full NIC, and I don’t particularly need one at the moment. Maybe in the future I’ll buy some 10G stuff from chelsio to test newer technologies.
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