From owner-freebsd-net Fri Aug 16 8:41:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB60E37B401 for ; Fri, 16 Aug 2002 08:41:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailtoaster1.pipeline.ch (mailtoaster1.pipeline.ch [62.48.0.70]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8653943E91 for ; Fri, 16 Aug 2002 08:41:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from oppermann@pipeline.ch) Received: (qmail 88916 invoked from network); 16 Aug 2002 15:39:25 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO pipeline.ch) ([62.48.0.53]) (envelope-sender ) by mailtoaster1.pipeline.ch (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 16 Aug 2002 15:39:25 -0000 Message-ID: <3D5D1D0B.17988AC5@pipeline.ch> Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 17:40:59 +0200 From: Andre Oppermann X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marco Molteni Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SUMMARY: 4-port PCI ethernet card? References: <20020814163205.22941.qmail@cobweb.example.org> <20020816081531.30617.qmail@cobweb.example.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Marco Molteni wrote: > > > could you suggest/comment on 2-port or 4-port ethernet cards that work > > with FreeBSD -stable? > > Thanks everybody who responded. Here is a summary of the replies I got: There is one more card, MLAN-104 from ICP. It can host two modules with two Ethernet chips each. Available are Intel Etherexpress, Realtek and Broadcomm Gigabit. The pricing is also quite ok, approx. EURO 250 with four fxp ports. Link is here: http://www.iei.com.tw/cgi-bin/ncommerce3/ExecMacro/index.d2w/html?nurl=/news/N20020604/mlan_104_en.htm -- Andre > o The FreeBSD release notes for 4.6 > http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.6R/hardware-i386.html#ETHERNET: > > + Adaptec Duralink PCI Fast Ethernet adapters based on the Adaptec > AIC-6915 Fast Ethernet controller chip (sf(4) driver) > - ANA-62044 64-bit quad port 10/100baseTX adapter > > + Texas Instruments ThunderLAN PCI NICs (tl(4) driver) > - Compaq Netelligent 10, 10/100, 10/100 Dual-Port > > o D-Link DFE-570TX, suggested by 4 persons. > http://www.dlink.com/products/adapters/dfe570tx/ > > o D-Link DFE-580TX, suggested by 2 persons. > http://www.dlink.com/products/adapters/dfe580tx/ > > Seems that the 570 performs better than the 580. New code has just > been committed in -current and -stable to make the 580 more stable. > > o Compaq, unknown model, based on the Intel EtherExpress Pro chip > (fxp driver), suggested by 1 person. > > o Znyx, suggested by 3 persons. (dc/de driver or Znyx-provided driver) > http://www.znyx.com/products/hardware/zx340q.htm > > o Adaptec, suggested by 1 person. > > o Phobos, now Sonicwall, based on Intel 21143, suggested by 1 person. > > marco > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message