Re: multi-port NIC suggestions?

[Charles Swiger]

On Jul 6, 2005, at 1:13 PM, Greg Barniskis wrote:
Can anyone suggest (or warn against) any particular NIC make/model  
that features 2 or 4 NIC ports on a single card, for use with 5.4- 
STABLE (or even 6.0 since this is a long term project)?


We are interested in prototyping a small footprint router/server  
device, where the small form factor host chassis will only have a  
couple of PCI slots, but 4 or more separate LAN interfaces are  
desired.


Thanks for any information you can provide.\


Sure.  I have several firewall boxes using a 4-port DEC 21x4x PCI  
NIC, which I think were OEM Dell boards, but I'm not 100% certain of  
that memory.  Looks like this (per pciconf -v -l):


[EMAIL PROTECTED]:14:0:class=0x060400 card=0x00dc  
chip=0x00241011 rev=0x03 hdr=0x01

vendor   = 'Digital Equipment Corporation'
device   = '21151/2 PCI to PCI Bridge'
class= bridge
subclass = PCI-PCI
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:4:0:   class=0x02 card=0x11101186 chip=0x00191011  
rev=0x41 hdr=0x00

vendor   = 'Digital Equipment Corporation'
device   = 'DC21142/3 PCI/CardBus 10/100 Mbit Ethernet Ctlr'
class= network
subclass = ethernet
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:5:0:   class=0x02 card=0x11101186 chip=0x00191011  
rev=0x41 hdr=0x00

vendor   = 'Digital Equipment Corporation'
device   = 'DC21142/3 PCI/CardBus 10/100 Mbit Ethernet Ctlr'
class= network
subclass = ethernet
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:6:0:   class=0x02 card=0x11101186 chip=0x00191011  
rev=0x41 hdr=0x00

vendor   = 'Digital Equipment Corporation'
device   = 'DC21142/3 PCI/CardBus 10/100 Mbit Ethernet Ctlr'
class= network
subclass = ethernet
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:7:0:   class=0x02 card=0x11101186 chip=0x00191011  
rev=0x41 hdr=0x00

vendor   = 'Digital Equipment Corporation'
device   = 'DC21142/3 PCI/CardBus 10/100 Mbit Ethernet Ctlr'
class= network
subclass = ethernet

I've been using them for three or four years now with no problems,  
under FreeBSD 4.x.  I expect they would also work just fine under  
5.x, too.


--
-Chuck

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multi-port NIC suggestions?

[Greg Barniskis]

Along the same lines of a similarly titled concurrent thread...

Can anyone suggest (or warn against) any particular NIC make/model 
that features 2 or 4 NIC ports on a single card, for use with 
5.4-STABLE (or even 6.0 since this is a long term project)?


We are interested in prototyping a small footprint router/server 
device, where the small form factor host chassis will only have a 
couple of PCI slots, but 4 or more separate LAN interfaces are desired.


Thanks for any information you can provide.

--
Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator
South Central Library System (SCLS)
Library Interchange Network (LINK)
, (608) 266-6348
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