From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Mar 14 15:36:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from herbelot.dyndns.org (s014.dhcp212-24.cybercable.fr [212.198.24.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 605CC37B71C for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2001 15:36:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from thierry@herbelot.com) Received: from herbelot.com (multi.herbelot.nom [192.168.1.2]) by herbelot.dyndns.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA52846; Thu, 15 Mar 2001 00:36:29 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from thierry@herbelot.com) Message-ID: <3AB00079.A62EE74F@herbelot.com> Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 00:36:25 +0100 From: Thierry Herbelot X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gene Sokolov Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Advise needed: multiport ethernet card References: <0e2801c0ac82$8aa92240$0d80f7d5@akmos.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Gene Sokolov wrote: > > We are in need of a 100MB multiport (2-4 ports) ethernet adapter for a total > of 5 ports in one PC. Can someone please advise what options are available > for FreeBSD 4.1 beside Adaptec ANA-62044 and ANA-62022? > the DLINK DFE 570-TX works quite well, and is supported by the dc(4) driver, which has active maintainers (there are interesting features in the dc(4) driver of 4.3-Release). I see some packet loss under high stress, but the board is really interesting (and cheap, too : ~ $250 for a 4-port NIC) -- Thierry Herbelot To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message