From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Mar 2 9:54:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from goliath.siemens.de (goliath.siemens.de [194.138.37.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3F7537BFF5 for ; Thu, 2 Mar 2000 09:54:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de) X-Envelope-Sender-Is: andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de (at relayer goliath.siemens.de) Received: from mail2.siemens.de (mail2.siemens.de [139.25.208.11]) by goliath.siemens.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA24402 for ; Thu, 2 Mar 2000 18:54:40 +0100 (MET) Received: from curry.mchp.siemens.de (curry.mchp.siemens.de [139.25.42.7]) by mail2.siemens.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA26458 for ; Thu, 2 Mar 2000 18:54:40 +0100 (MET) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by curry.mchp.siemens.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA66928 for ; Thu, 2 Mar 2000 18:54:40 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 18:54:39 +0100 From: Andre Albsmeier To: Didier Derny Cc: Kris Kirby , lluisma , "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Tuning: FreeBSD as static router with 6 fast ethernet cards Message-ID: <20000302185439.C20215@internal> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from didier@omnix.net on Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 10:58:14AM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 02-Mar-2000 at 10:58:14 +0000, Didier Derny wrote: > > what dual 10/100 ethernet card do you suggest ? I wasn't asked but I use the Intel ExterExpress Dual Channel with great success. I have only one of them and a single channel Intel ExterExpress as well: Probing for devices on PCI bus 0: chip0: rev 0x02 on pci0.0.0 chip1: rev 0x02 on pci0.1.0 chip2: rev 0x02 on pci0.4.0 chip3: rev 0x02 on pci0.4.3 fxp0: rev 0x05 int a irq 12 on pci0.7.0 fxp0: Ethernet address 00:e0:18:90:45:dc ahc0: rev 0x00 int a irq 15 on pci0.9.0 ahc0: aic7880 Single Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 16/255 SCBs ahc1: rev 0x03 int a irq 12 on pci0.10.0 ahc1: aic7895 Single Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 255 SCBs ahc2: rev 0x03 int b irq 15 on pci0.10.1 ahc2: aic7895 Single Channel B, SCSI Id=7, 255 SCBs chip4: rev 0x03 on pci0.12.0 Probing for devices on PCI bus 1: Probing for devices on PCI bus 2: fxp1: rev 0x05 int a irq 11 on pci2.4.0 fxp1: Ethernet address 00:90:27:d3:16:b7 fxp2: rev 0x05 int a irq 10 on pci2.5.0 fxp2: Ethernet address 00:90:27:d3:16:b8 -Andre > > 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message