From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Sep 30 12:46:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mail.polytechnic.edu.na (mail.polytechnic.edu.na [196.31.225.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DA0D156A1 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:46:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tim@iafrica.com.na) Received: from [196.31.225.199] (helo=310.priebe.alt.na) by mail.polytechnic.edu.na with smtp (Exim 3.02 #2) id 11Wo4N-0001Eu-00; Thu, 30 Sep 1999 19:48:55 -0200 From: Tim Priebe Reply-To: tim@iafrica.com.na To: "Jeffrey J. Libman" , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: re: multi-port ethernet cards Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 21:42:01 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.17] Content-Type: text/plain References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <99093021453401.05277@310.priebe.alt.na> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-KMail-Mark: Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Jeffrey J. Libman wrote: > i am configuring new servers to take the place of my old 486 (bsdi) boxes. > the new boxes are pentiums, based on freeBSD stable (3.3 as of now). > > i have only so many pci slots available. can anybody point me to one or > more models of multi-port ethernet cards (10baseT is fine) that will work > under freeBSD? > > thanks in advance. > > cheers, > jeff As speed does not seem to be an issue, if you have a Ethernet switch with vlan support, you can try the vlan support in FreeBSD. Works great here, we have 10 vlans running on 4 Ethernet cards. Tim. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message