From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 13 16:21:50 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F142716A41F for ; Thu, 13 Oct 2005 16:21:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 654B443D48 for ; Thu, 13 Oct 2005 16:21:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB9FD5F79; Thu, 13 Oct 2005 12:21:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 31750-03; Thu, 13 Oct 2005 12:21:38 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-68-161-76-130.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.76.130]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22B675D37; Thu, 13 Oct 2005 12:21:38 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <434E8993.7060409@mac.com> Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 12:21:39 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Drew Linsalata References: <20051013153932.97129.qmail@mail.gothambus.com> In-Reply-To: <20051013153932.97129.qmail@mail.gothambus.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Multiport NICs - VLAN and Polling Support? X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 16:21:51 -0000 Drew Linsalata wrote: > Maybe I'm asking for too much here, but does anyone know of a 4 port NIC > that supports both VLAN tagging and polling? Looks like only em and nge > handle both (in 4.11), so it stands to reason that I'm having a hard > time finding this beast. Thought maybe someone had better luck than > I've had in this search. Most of the 4-port NICs I've seen use the DEC Tulip 21x4x, which has polling support but not VLAN_MTU or VLAN_TAGGING. I've seen one-quad port fxp using Intel chipset which had polling and VLAN_MTU, but not VLAN_TAGGING. A quick look on CDW comes up with: Intel PRO/1000 MT Quad Port Server Adapter ($500) http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/default.aspx?EDC=475069 http://www.intel.com/network/connectivity/products/pro1000mt_quad_server_adapter ...which ought to do, or even: Sun Quad FastEthernet network adapter - 4 ports ($1600) http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/default.aspx?EDC=737129 ...which is rather expensive. :-) There's also a Adaptec ANA-64044 LV KIT 4 port 66MHZ NIC ($480) http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/default.aspx?EDC=437044 ...but I don't know what chipset that is using. -- -Chuck