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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..
> 
> 
> 

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Barry Irwin		bvi@itouchlabs.com			+27214875177
Systems Administrator: Networks And Security
Itouch Labs 		http://www.itouchlabs.com		South Africa


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