From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Jun 14 15:46:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from herbelot.dyndns.org (r148m178.cybercable.tm.fr [195.132.148.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E1B637BA45 for ; Wed, 14 Jun 2000 15:46:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from herbelot@cybercable.fr) Received: from cybercable.fr (multi.herbelot.nom [192.168.1.2]) by herbelot.dyndns.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA10915; Thu, 15 Jun 2000 00:44:37 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from herbelot@cybercable.fr) Message-ID: <3948094C.2149CFEC@cybercable.fr> Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 00:38:04 +0200 From: Thierry Herbelot X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: sthaug@nethelp.no Cc: jasonverkaart@hotmail.com, mmat@twister.zrs.hr, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4 x Network card References: <20000614173426.17183.qmail@hotmail.com> <61981.961008104@verdi.nethelp.no> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org sthaug@nethelp.no wrote: > > > If you really want 4 network interfaces, you should look into the > > multi-interface cards. I have a 4 interface DEC card based on the DEC 24041 > > chipset. BSD treats it as 4 seperate cards, and you save yourself 3 slots. > > :) (each "NIC" still requires an IRQ though) > > This is not necessarily true. All the multiport cards I've used (either > Tulip or Intel based) have allowed interrupt sharing. > > Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message Hello, I'm using at work some (around 50, now) boards by D-Lik (DFE-570-TX) which I heartily recommend : they work well on either 3.4 or 4.x and you use just one PCI slot for 4 Ethernet port (and a p-III 450 can sustain routing on all 4 ports simultaneously at up to 50-70 Mbps on each port). TfH PS : has someone any idea on how to use all ports "ganged" to get more bandwidth ? (I know I could use a 1-Gig Enet board, but I would like to use a 4-port-board to get a 400Mbps bandwidth to my file server) -- Thierry Herbelot ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN /"\ Dir. technique LUCCAS AGAINST HTML MAIL & NEWS \ / tout le cable sur http://www.luccas.org PAS DE HTML DANS X un CV : http://perso.cybercable.fr/herbelot LES COURRIELS / \ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message