I have recently acquired, 3 * Nexcom NSA 1108 units - with the intention of using them as OpenBSD routers. Information about the unit can be found here :-
http://www.nexcomuk.co.uk/product/productshow.jsp?iid=13&pid=692 The unit has the following onboard LAN chips :- PCI-E GbE: Intel. 82571EB PCI-32 GbE: Intel. 82541PI both of which are listed as being supported in the em manual page - despite this OpenBSD is having problems recognising 8 of the nic ports. The 2 fiber ports always detect fine, the remaining 8 copper ports issue errors in the dmesg. I have tried various things including 1) Updating to most recent bios 2) Disabling acpi, apm, usb 3) Disabling hyperthreading in the bios Whilst I get slightly different results on each test, the 8 copper nics still do not work. As the dmesg output is quite long I have put links to them here. The dmesg was carried out on an OpenBSD snapshot from two days ago. http://www.kgb.org.ru/nexcom/ Interestingly, all ports work fine in freebsd. I know a hardware developer at Nexcom in Taiwan who is keep to help and would be willing to assist OpenBSD developers with hardware documentation. I have used other Nexcom units with OpenBSD, including the NSA1086 and DNA840 - both make ideal routing platforms when used with bgp/ospf/ carp. Thanks, Jules
