From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 30 14:43:29 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9BE61065672 for ; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 14:43:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wjw@digiware.nl) Received: from mail.digiware.nl (mail.ip6.digiware.nl [IPv6:2001:4cb8:1:106::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5086D8FC12 for ; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 14:43:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from rack1.digiware.nl (localhost.digiware.nl [127.0.0.1]) by mail.digiware.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 554B3153434; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 16:43:28 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at digiware.nl Received: from mail.digiware.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by rack1.digiware.nl (rack1.digiware.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id CTs3eWmL25-s; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 16:43:26 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [109.32.148.213] (unknown [109.32.148.213]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.digiware.nl (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D8920153433; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 16:43:25 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4D934199.8060300@digiware.nl> Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 16:43:37 +0200 From: Willem Jan Withagen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steve Polyack References: <20110327131643.GA36085@psconsult.nl> <20110328172947.GA45413@psconsult.nl> <4D90E57D.2060001@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <4D90E57D.2060001@comcast.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Paul Schenkeveld , freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: looking for gigabit network appliances X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 14:43:29 -0000 On 28-3-2011 21:46, Steve Polyack wrote: > On 03/28/11 13:29, Paul Schenkeveld wrote: > Axiomtek makes a handful of devices which might interest you. Their > NA-820 is a pretty solid platform for serial console, internal VGA > headers, 7 Intel em(4) gigabit ethernet interfaces, and SATA support: > http://axiomtek.com/products/ViewProduct.asp?view=429 > > We haven't had any trouble with running FreeBSD on them. I'm not sure > about obtaining them in Europe, however. I've purchased 2 of them and they got shipped directly from the far-East. There is a reseller in Germany, but they still defer you. Al in al it was a realively painless process. And yo gan even go to eleven * 1Gbit, if you use a quad ehternet card in the extention slot. Processing power to fully utilize all ports is more of a problem. Since generating 11Gb/s of traffic ain't easy. :) --WjW