From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Mar 5 9:32: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from aurora.sol.net (aurora.sol.net [206.55.65.76]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21D5037BA8B for ; Sun, 5 Mar 2000 09:31:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jgreco@aurora.sol.net) Received: (from jgreco@localhost) by aurora.sol.net (8.9.2/8.9.2/SNNS-1.02) id LAA87722; Sun, 5 Mar 2000 11:31:37 -0600 (CST) From: Joe Greco Message-Id: <200003051731.LAA87722@aurora.sol.net> Subject: Re: Tuning: FreeBSD as static router with 6 fast ethernet cards In-Reply-To: <20000302185439.C20215_internal@ns.sol.net> from Andre Albsmeier at "Mar 2, 2000 6: 5:31 pm" To: andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de (Andre Albsmeier) Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2000 11:31:37 -0600 (CST) Cc: didier@omnix.net, kris@hiwaay.net, lluisma@osi-technologies.com, stable@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Thu, 02-Mar-2000 at 10:58:14 +0000, Didier Derny wrote: > > what dual 10/100 ethernet card do you suggest ? I really like the SMC 9334BDT. It's a well-supported dual Tulip that has been around forever, and has great lights on it. Unfortunately, it is a bit pricey, at $205 per card. I've got lots of these, though, and they are my preferred solution even for non-router uses. I've got a D-Link DFE-570TX here, 4 ports for ~$175, that works with the new 4.0 dc driver (allegedly). I'm quite interested in these, obviously, although a bit reluctant to give up on a tried and proven solution that has worked for me for years. With the advent of motherboards with 5 and 6 PCI slots, in theory one could build oneself a 24-port 10/100 router for under $2000. ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/342-4847 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message