From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Mar 29 16:28:34 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 B64A137B8C4 for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 16:28:21 -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 RAA63962; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 17:27:49 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from alex@aspenworks.com) Message-ID: <38E29F62.88009FD3@aspenworks.com> Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 17:27:14 -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: chip@eboai.org 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> <38E274DE.C3023082@aspenworks.com> <20000329163927.A81458@hindenburg.eboai.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Thanks everyone for the helpful response.. I've plenty of leads.. What a great list! Cheers, -Alex Chip Marshall wrote: > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message