From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 6 18:28:01 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35E8216A41C for ; Wed, 6 Jul 2005 18:28:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from smtpout.mac.com (smtpout.mac.com [17.250.248.45]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A84B743D45 for ; Wed, 6 Jul 2005 18:27:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com (smtpin01-en2 [10.13.10.146]) by smtpout.mac.com (Xserve/8.12.11/smtpout11/MantshX 4.0) with ESMTP id j66IRtPE000735; Wed, 6 Jul 2005 11:27:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.1.1.209] (nfw2.codefab.com [199.103.21.225] (may be forged)) (authenticated bits=0) by mac.com (Xserve/smtpin01/MantshX 4.0) with ESMTP id j66IRrxH028627; Wed, 6 Jul 2005 11:27:54 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <42CC113D.6090307@scls.lib.wi.us> References: <42CC113D.6090307@scls.lib.wi.us> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v730) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Charles Swiger Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 14:27:52 -0400 To: Greg Barniskis X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.730) Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: multi-port NIC suggestions? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 18:28:01 -0000 On Jul 6, 2005, at 1:13 PM, Greg Barniskis wrote: > Can anyone suggest (or warn against) any particular NIC make/model > that features 2 or 4 NIC ports on a single card, for use with 5.4- > STABLE (or even 6.0 since this is a long term project)? > > We are interested in prototyping a small footprint router/server > device, where the small form factor host chassis will only have a > couple of PCI slots, but 4 or more separate LAN interfaces are > desired. > > Thanks for any information you can provide.\ Sure. I have several firewall boxes using a 4-port DEC 21x4x PCI NIC, which I think were OEM Dell boards, but I'm not 100% certain of that memory. Looks like this (per pciconf -v -l): pcib2@pci0:14:0: class=0x060400 card=0x000000dc chip=0x00241011 rev=0x03 hdr=0x01 vendor = 'Digital Equipment Corporation' device = '21151/2 PCI to PCI Bridge' class = bridge subclass = PCI-PCI dc0@pci2:4:0: class=0x020000 card=0x11101186 chip=0x00191011 rev=0x41 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Digital Equipment Corporation' device = 'DC21142/3 PCI/CardBus 10/100 Mbit Ethernet Ctlr' class = network subclass = ethernet dc1@pci2:5:0: class=0x020000 card=0x11101186 chip=0x00191011 rev=0x41 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Digital Equipment Corporation' device = 'DC21142/3 PCI/CardBus 10/100 Mbit Ethernet Ctlr' class = network subclass = ethernet dc2@pci2:6:0: class=0x020000 card=0x11101186 chip=0x00191011 rev=0x41 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Digital Equipment Corporation' device = 'DC21142/3 PCI/CardBus 10/100 Mbit Ethernet Ctlr' class = network subclass = ethernet dc3@pci2:7:0: class=0x020000 card=0x11101186 chip=0x00191011 rev=0x41 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Digital Equipment Corporation' device = 'DC21142/3 PCI/CardBus 10/100 Mbit Ethernet Ctlr' class = network subclass = ethernet I've been using them for three or four years now with no problems, under FreeBSD 4.x. I expect they would also work just fine under 5.x, too. -- -Chuck