From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 3 18:01:08 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4522E16A4CE for ; Thu, 3 Feb 2005 18:01:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.200]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FFDA43D3F for ; Thu, 3 Feb 2005 18:01:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jsimola@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 58so272002wri for ; Thu, 03 Feb 2005 10:01:05 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=R5FWDesy4jo+QC4sihYQTWfYpZsNAfs1S/fdk2VWg2feSY0DF71satkwSMtNVU+thmu/UkHAMPrFLsaQGy1XrkGqlTaF0wpvKxnTJBcELwCefuZx9yIV/go/dySZ0JbggXovnEC2A8uku7KvHYrp5rrkAPHjK9W2QIY2fdPv1kU= Received: by 10.54.28.63 with SMTP id b63mr51732wrb; Thu, 03 Feb 2005 09:54:24 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.54.39.34 with HTTP; Thu, 3 Feb 2005 09:53:54 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <8eea0408050203095376da2a8f@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 09:53:54 -0800 From: Jon Simola To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20050203171805.GA83416@gargantuan.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <20050203171805.GA83416@gargantuan.com> Subject: Re: quad port fast ethernet card recommendations X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: jon@abccomm.com List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 18:01:08 -0000 On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 12:18:05 -0500, Michael W. Oliver 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.