I've just brought 3.8-RELEASE up on an oldie-but-goody machine - ASUS P3B-F
- into which a total of 10 NICs have been thrust. 4 are on an Adaptec
AHA-62044, whose NICs get named sf0 .. sf3 (note that as per the i386 info
at http://www.openbsd.org/i386.html, these are recognised by the GENERIC
kernel but not by the one on the boot CD-ROM); 4 more are on a D-LINK DFE
570TX, whose NICs get named dc0 .. dc3. (That's a minor documentation bug in
the i386 web page - it says the 570TX NICs will get driven by the de(4)
driver, but it's the dc(4) which does the job in point of fact. The dc(4)
and de(4) man pages get this right).
No massive stress tests done yet, but basic ping and nc of 10MB in sensible
barely-over-a-second time suggests basic functionality working well. (Actual
performance for nc sending a 10MB testfile is about 0.98 seconds on the dc
ports of the 570TX, and more like 1.4 seconds on the sf ports on the
Adaptec; both going through one otherwise unloaded switch to a Windows box.)
Hope that's encouraging/useful to anyone else setting up a multizone setup
with an OpenBSD box as the spider / hydra / Fat Controller /
piggy-in-the-middle / Network Policy Device / whatever you want to call it...
dmesg sent to openbsd.org's 'dmesg' address, not appended here; shout if you
feel you must see it.
Cheers, Stefek
- Double 4-port NIC happiness Stefek Zaba
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