From owner-freebsd-isp Sun Apr 8 12: 8:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from bsdie.rwsystems.net (bsdie.rwsystems.net [209.197.223.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A9E437B422 for ; Sun, 8 Apr 2001 12:08:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jwyatt@rwsystems.net) Received: from bsdie.rwsystems.net([209.197.223.2]) (1571 bytes) by bsdie.rwsystems.net via sendmail with P:esmtp/R:bind_hosts/T:inet_zone_bind_smtp (sender: ) id for ; Sun, 8 Apr 2001 14:08:06 -0500 (CDT) (Smail-3.2.0.111 2000-Feb-17 #1 built 2000-Jun-25) Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2001 14:07:56 -0500 (CDT) From: James Wyatt To: Marcin Swietochowski Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4 port nic In-Reply-To: <002001c0c02e$223fa980$0200000a@safenet.pl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 8 Apr 2001, Marcin Swietochowski wrote: > > A while back on this list someone posted a 4 port nic for freebsd. Does any > > know/remember a card that definitely does work? > > I'm using quad port NIC card from D-Link - DFE-570TX > Works good... > > Just read man 4 dc There is also one by Adaptec. From the last list discussions "If you just need 4 indepenent ports with good throughput, go for the DLink ($150-190). If you need 4 ports that can all haul-ass all the time go for the Adaptec board (>$600?). The cards with the 4-port "hub" are really a single port. IIRC, the Adaptec board is a 64-bit PCI card and the DLink is 32bit. In my situation, I figured I could buy a DLink and a spare with money left since I need 4 ports, but only two are 100bT. We usually avoid Adaptec stuff now, though we lived on the 1540/1740 series in the "old days". A while back we fixed all our Adaptec problems by replacing 2940/3940 SCSI cards with TekRam DC-390x boards and had cash to spare. Sad, really - Jy@ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message