Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 12:23:14 +0200 From: Barry Irwin <bvi@itouchlabs.com> To: Kal Torak <kaltorak@quake.com.au> Cc: FreeBSD ISP <freebsd-isp@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Good dual port NICs? Message-ID: <20020624122314.P46303@itouchlabs.com> In-Reply-To: <3D16F13E.8040503@quake.com.au>; from kaltorak@quake.com.au on Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 08:15:26PM %2B1000 References: <3D16E250.9080004@quake.com.au> <20020624095738.GA229@heitec.net> <20020624120833.L46303@itouchlabs.com> <3D16F13E.8040503@quake.com.au>
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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
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