From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Mar 29 20:51:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from bsdie.rwsystems.net (bsdie.rwsystems.net [209.197.223.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1A1B37BACD for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 20:51:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jwyatt@rwsystems.net) Received: from bsdie.rwsystems.net([209.197.223.2]) (1734 bytes) by bsdie.rwsystems.net via sendmail with P:esmtp/R:bind_hosts/T:inet_zone_bind_smtp (sender: ) id for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 22:43:32 -0600 (CST) (Smail-3.2.0.106 1999-Mar-31 #1 built 1999-Aug-7) Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 22:43:31 -0600 (CST) From: James Wyatt To: Bill Fumerola Cc: Mike Tancsa , alex@aspenworks.com, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Building 8-port Router In-Reply-To: <20000329163853.R23367@jade.chc-chimes.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Bill Fumerola wrote: > On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 04:12:02PM -0500, Mike Tancsa 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 > > [hawk-billf] /home/billf > grep -e '^fxp' /var/run/dmesg.boot > fxp0: port 0xece0-0xecff mem 0xfdf00000-0xfdffffff,0xf5fff000-0xf5ffffff irq 11 at device 4.0 on pci2 > fxp0: Ethernet address 00:90:27:2a:65:3e > fxp1: port 0xecc0-0xecdf mem 0xfde00000-0xfdefffff,0xf5ffe000-0xf5ffefff irq 10 at device 5.0 on pci2 > fxp1: Ethernet address 00:90:27:2a:65:3f > > That's an "Intel PRO/100+ Dual Port Server Adapter" Ack! Don't any of them allow you to share IRQs on the PCI bus? I can imagine doing 8 ports using 8 IRQs would be, uh, limiting... - Jy@ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message