From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Mar 2 3:12:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from www.menzor.dk (themoonismadeofgreenchease.dk [195.249.147.160]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2A2A37BBBB for ; Thu, 2 Mar 2000 03:12:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ml@seeberg.dk) Received: from sos (userhost.cma.dk [130.228.127.200]) by www.menzor.dk (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA11735; Thu, 2 Mar 2000 12:27:44 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ml@seeberg.dk) Message-ID: <01b801bf8438$753e5ec0$16280c0a@sos> Reply-To: "Morten Seeberg" From: "Morten Seeberg" To: "Didier Derny" , References: Subject: Re: Tuning: FreeBSD as static router with 6 fast ethernet cards Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 12:14:19 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The Compaq Dual port cards NC3122 works great for me, We´ve tried having 2 dual ports in running along with a single port and an onboard Thunderlan card. No problems, as long as you remember to terminate unused ports. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Didier Derny" To: "Kris Kirby" Cc: "lluisma" ; Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2000 11:58 AM Subject: Re: Tuning: FreeBSD as static router with 6 fast ethernet cards > > what dual 10/100 ethernet card do you suggest ? > > I've tried the adaptec board 4x 10/100 but it was a disaster > (very expensive and impossible to put 2 boards at the same time) > > On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Kris Kirby wrote: > > > > I have this opportunity to use freebsd as a router serving 15 subnets > > > with six fast ethernet cards(will do aliasing to support all 15 subnets) > > > supporting about 1,200 PCs running windows. In addition, this freebsd > > > router will also run samba 2.0.6( to act as local master browser for > > > all subnets) and ipfilter and nothing else. All PCs are connected to > > > switches with 10/100 mbit ports. > > > > Might be better to use three dual 10/100 ethernet cards. > > > > ---- > > Kris Kirby, KE4AHR | TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. > > | > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > "God gave them the ability to reproduce... > > ... Science gave us the hope they won't." -KBK > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message