On 11/17/05, Stephan Leemburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 > > I do not agree, I have 10 or 12 D-Link DGE-530T running 3.7 atleast since CD release time and no issues what so ever, they are attached as sk(4) devices and I couldn't be a happier camper. Though that is most likely due to the chipset, not D-Link as a brand. These cards are very cheap, some 20 euros a pop in here in Sweden. Browse the OpenBSD metastore and/or the manual pages, em(4) and sk(4) should get you started on your quest.
-- // Johan
