From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Mar 6 9:39:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from sabre.velocet.net (sabre.velocet.net [198.96.118.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85CF237BE4D for ; Mon, 6 Mar 2000 09:39:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dgilbert@velocet.ca) Received: from velocet.ca (trooper.velocet.net [216.126.82.226]) by sabre.velocet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7755E137F83; Mon, 6 Mar 2000 12:39:04 -0500 (EST) Received: (from dgilbert@localhost) by velocet.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA22424; Mon, 6 Mar 2000 12:39:04 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from dgilbert) From: David Gilbert MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14531.60728.237795.280366@trooper.velocet.net> Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 12:39:04 -0500 (EST) To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: Joe Greco Subject: RE: Re: Tuning: FreeBSD as static router with 6 fast ethernet cards X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On the subject of the DFE-570TX cards, they work well with 3.x and the de driver as long as you use them in half-duplex mode. For full duplex operation, the dc driver in 4.0 is preferable. We have a number of hosts with 16 ports stuck in them doing various routing jobs. I remember being told that the de driver had a 16 port limit. I don't know if the dc driver has this limit, or what's involved in raising it. Dave. -- ============================================================================ |David Gilbert, Velocet Communications. | Two things can only be | |Mail: dgilbert@velocet.net | equal if and only if they | |http://www.velocet.net/~dgilbert | are precisely opposite. | =========================================================GLO================ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message