From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Mar 29 13:39:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from hindenburg.eboai.org (hindenburg.eboai.org [205.181.254.190]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C40637C166 for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 13:39:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chip@eboai.org) Received: by hindenburg.eboai.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id DCDD53D54; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 16:39:27 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 16:39:27 -0500 From: Chip Marshall To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Building 8-port Router Message-ID: <20000329163927.A81458@hindenburg.eboai.org> Reply-To: chip@eboai.org 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> <38E274DE.C3023082@aspenworks.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.1.4i In-Reply-To: <38E274DE.C3023082@aspenworks.com>; from alex@aspenworks.com on Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 02:25:50PM -0700 X-Real-OS: FreeBSD hindenburg.eboai.org 3.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 02:25:50PM -0700, Alex wrote: > 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've got to routers running with one DFE-570TX each, and so far FreeBSD has had no problem with them (under 3.4 at least, havn't tried 4.0 out on them yet.) Each card simply shows up as 4 de devices. All the special features that are displayed on the Dlink website are just things they put into the NT drivers for the card, nothing special with the card as far as I can tell. -- Chip Marshall http://www.chocobo.cx/chip/ PGP keys on website or by finger GCM/CS d+(-) s+:++ a--- C++(+++) UB++++ P+++>$ L- E--- W++ N+(++) o K? w O M+ V- PS PE Y? PGP++ t+@ 5 X(+) R>+ t+() b+>++ DI++++ D(-) G e>++ h!>++ r--- y To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message