Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 09:53:54 -0800 From: Jon Simola <jsimola@gmail.com> To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: quad port fast ethernet card recommendations Message-ID: <8eea0408050203095376da2a8f@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20050203171805.GA83416@gargantuan.com> References: <20050203171805.GA83416@gargantuan.com>
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On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 12:18:05 -0500, Michael W. Oliver <michael@gargantuan.com> wrote: > subject sums it up. will be used in small firewall boxes with WAN, LAN, > DMZ, and WLAN (via x-over to AP) connections. older hardware, so > please, no fancy super-duper mega-bandwidth PCI cards that I won't have > slots for. I only have one PCI slot to play with, else I would use > single-port cards. the case is kinda small, too, so I don't think that > full-length cards will fit. Yeah, I know... not asking for much. :) > > what do you recommend? Not a recommendation: D-Link DFE-580TX For $100CAD, it's a quad ste() card and didn't wow me with performace. I ran into a few issues related to trying to burst 30Mbps over it's PCI bridge and the motherboard's PCI bridge (which I know is pushing a standard PCI implementation). My next suggestion (haven't actually used one but have heard great things about them) for a plain, functional quad NIC would be Soekris Engineering's lan1641, for $89USD http://www.soekris.com/ You may even want to investigate their boards, I've been eyeing the 4801 + 1621 bundle for $309USD, which gets you 5 ethernet interfaces on a bootable board in a case.
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