From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Mar 7 21:37:10 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BFDA37B405 for ; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 21:37:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp-relay.omnis.com (smtp-relay.omnis.com [216.239.128.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8DBD43F85 for ; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 21:37:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.homeunix.net (66-75-151-22.san.rr.com [66.75.151.22]) by smtp-relay.omnis.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1593F42F90; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 21:37:08 -0800 (PST) From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr To: Doug Ambrisko , Thierry Herbelot Subject: Re: Realtek Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 21:37:07 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 Cc: Doug Ambrisko , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200303072117.h27LHoNL014430@www.ambrisko.com> In-Reply-To: <200303072117.h27LHoNL014430@www.ambrisko.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200303072137.07385.wes@softweyr.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday 07 March 2003 13:17, Doug Ambrisko wrote: > Thierry Herbelot writes: > | > | and the avid reader asks : so, now, what NIC are you really using ? > | (I too have used with great pleasure quite a bunch of DLink-DFE-570), > | and I was leaning towards using the newer DFE-580 4-port on another > | project ...) > > PHK found a 4 port fxp card that was priced pretty good. I don't know > how successful he has with them. We're using a 2-port EEPro with 82551 chips with the two ports connected with relays and a watchdog; we get excellent throughput in our testing so far. I don't recall the vendor, it is "Ad-something." I can look them up Monday if you email me about it then. I think they make a 4-port 551 card without the relays as well, but I don't know about pricing. -- Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket? Wes Peters wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message