Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 11:45:18 -0500 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net> To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org, Drew Linsalata <drew@gothambus.com> Subject: Re: Multiport NICs - VLAN and Polling Support? Message-ID: <20051013164518.GA66908@over-yonder.net> In-Reply-To: <434E8993.7060409@mac.com> References: <20051013153932.97129.qmail@mail.gothambus.com> <434E8993.7060409@mac.com>
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On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 12:21:39PM -0400 I heard the voice of Chuck Swiger, and lo! it spake thus: > > Most of the 4-port NICs I've seen use the DEC Tulip 21x4x, And most of 'em are hideously expensive, too. I've wished a couple of times for multi-port NIC's that aren't wacky priced. And it seems like it finally happened, too. Soekris, in addition to their SBC's, has 2- and 4-port NIC's now. <http://www.soekris.com/lan16x1.htm>; I believe they use the sis(4) driver, which in my experience has been stable and not hideously low performance. I don't use polling or VLAN's, but a glance at the manpages suggests polling seems to support sis, and VLAN's will work too (with software assist). And they're reasonably priced, too ($63 and $89, for 2- and 4-port respectively). -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@over-yonder.net Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/ On the Internet, nobody can hear you scream.
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