From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Mar 29 13:26: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from aspenworks.com (netdev.aspenworks.com [192.94.236.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB51237B6EF for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 13:26:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from alex@aspenworks.com) Received: from aspenworks.com (s00-c-lv3.sopris.net [208.44.83.71]) by aspenworks.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA62836; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 14:26:01 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from alex@aspenworks.com) Message-ID: <38E274DE.C3023082@aspenworks.com> Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 14:25:50 -0700 From: Alex Reply-To: alex@aspenworks.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Tancsa Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Building 8-port Router References: <3.0.5.32.20000329142458.0205c5a0@marble.sentex.ca> <200003291906.OAA26812@etinc.com> <38b4b9a7.22295369@mail.sentex.net> <3.0.5.32.20000329153647.01aa1690@marble.sentex.ca> <3.0.5.32.20000329161202.01afc6c0@marble.sentex.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Mike, Thank you. If someone has experience with this adapter, please write. I've read the specs, and unless I'm missing something it appears to be a specialized adapter for fault tolerance and load balancing.. The specs say it appears as one port to the OS. They must mean to NT? If FreeBSD's driver sees 4 NICs, then this would be a good fit. Else, the other 4 port NIC is the Adapatec - spendy and no drivers in FreeBSD, that I've found. I'll dig a bit in the archives. Cheers, -Alex Mike Tancsa wrote: > > At 02:06 PM 3/29/00 -0700, Alex wrote: > > > >Okay I'll bite, who makes a multiport Ethernet adapter that's supported > >by FreeBSD? > > I havent used any myself, but some have used the > > http://www.dlink.com/products/adapters/dfe570tx/ > > via the dc driver. Check the archives for people's experience with it. It > uses the dc driver under 4.x > > ---Mike > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 > Network Administrator, mike@sentex.net > Sentex Communications www.sentex.net > Cambridge, Ontario Canada To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message