From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Jun 24 3:22:45 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.dev.itouchnet.net (devco.net [196.15.188.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2A3437B400 for ; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 03:22:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by mx1.dev.itouchnet.net with scanned_ok (Exim 3.35 #1) id 17MR0u-0004GC-00 for freebsd-isp@freebsd.org; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 12:24:04 +0200 Received: from shell.devco.net ([196.15.188.7]) by mx1.dev.itouchnet.net with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 17MR0u-0004Fy-00; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 12:24:04 +0200 Received: from bvi by shell.devco.net with local (Exim 3.33 #4) id 17MR06-000E2E-00; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 12:23:14 +0200 Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 12:23:14 +0200 From: Barry Irwin To: Kal Torak Cc: FreeBSD ISP Subject: Re: Good dual port NICs? Message-ID: <20020624122314.P46303@itouchlabs.com> References: <3D16E250.9080004@quake.com.au> <20020624095738.GA229@heitec.net> <20020624120833.L46303@itouchlabs.com> <3D16F13E.8040503@quake.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3D16F13E.8040503@quake.com.au>; from kaltorak@quake.com.au on Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 08:15:26PM +1000 X-Checked: Scanned for any viruses and unauthorized attachments at mx1.dev.itouchnet.net X-iScan-ID: 16376-1024914244-53169@mx1.dev.itouchnet.net version $Name: REL_2_0_2 $ Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org all four interfaces can be used, the box I pasted form just happens to not have the other two segments powered on at present. I'm using these with one U rackmounts that have a dual onboard fxp to give me a nice 6 port firewall in limited space. cards are around ZAR2800 so +_250 USD for the Dlink cards the Adaptec starfire/quartet's are around 700 GBP last one I bought On Mon 2002-06-24 (20:15), Kal Torak wrote: > > Barry Irwin wrote: > > Adaptec Quartet (starfire) cards are also a nice quad port card ( and are on > > a 64-bit PCI card) > > > > > > They use the sf driver. I have a few of these as well, but prefer theDlinks > > which are in the region of 1/4 of the cost. > > Hmmm so you can actualy use each 4 ports seperatly?? > > I see in your ifconfig output only 2 of the interfaces have > IP's.. The other 2 are being used for redundancy? I just want > to make sure I can use them seperatly ;) > > How much are those D-Links? I might just get one and try it.. > > > -- Barry Irwin bvi@itouchlabs.com +27214875177 Systems Administrator: Networks And Security Itouch Labs http://www.itouchlabs.com South Africa To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message