The D-Link cards are bad and do not work well under OpenBSD (pre 3.8
I haven't used them with 3.8). You should avoid them.
I had two in one firewall and one in another, I replaced them with
Intel Pro cards, to get rid of frequent kernel panics.
I was planning to try to work on the driver, but the Intel cards just
function that well that I think I'm not going to spend time on it.
--
Stephan
On 17-nov-2005, at 9:00, Guido Tschakert wrote:
Daniel Ouellet wrote:
Sorry for this off topic question. Looking at the archive, SK
(Henning love them! (;>) is what look likes the best Ethernet
cards to use, a few months ago anyway. The network cards are
changing so quickly that what was true 6 months ago, may well not
be today.
For quad, can someone confirmed, deny or offer alternative known
to work well before I get 12 of them. Hopefully I may be able to
fit them into the Sun X2100, but will see.
Also, any issue to run a minimum of 100 VLan on them? I didn't see
issue in the archive, so I take it as been no problem! I don't
think of any.
Any other suggestions is also welcome, I am more concern at the
efficiency of the cards as they will be routing and supporting
many VLan and PF will in some of the setup use individual VLan
firewall configuration, up to 125 in one case. Will see if I can
make that work well, not sure of my possible success, but will see...
Thanks for your time.
Hello,
the D-Link Card DFE-580TX works under OpenBSD, but their greatest
advantage is that they are cheap (around 100 Euro in Germany).
Don't expect to much performance.
The are useful if you have to connect a lot of networks (with small
traffic) and have not enough pci slots and money ;-)
I think you need something with better performance regarding to
your setup.
guido
