Re: 4 port router card
On 2007/04/30 13:30, Steve Glaus wrote: I bought a Realtek based 4 port pci 10/110 card off of ebay. It's probably single-port + a built-in switch. The RTL8305SC is a vlan-capable switch. Looks like it can be controlled from the host: http://fxr.watson.org/fxr/source/dev/mii/rlswitch.c I was hoping I would be able to use this card to set-up for individual networks. When I boot the card in openbsd it only comes up with one (ral0) interface. ral(4) is for Ralink wireless not Realtek wired nics. The actual *complete* dmesg might help confirm things.
Re: 4 port router card
On 4/30/07, Steve Glaus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I bought a Realtek based 4 port pci 10/110 card off of ebay. I was hoping I would be able to use this card to set-up for individual networks. When I boot the card in openbsd it only comes up with one (ral0) interface. Is it possible this is just a 'switching' card and I cant route traffic across the ports? It has a realtek RTL8305SC controller chip on it - which according to what I've read has 5 MAC's - Maybe I'm not understanding what this card is supposed to do correctly. dmesg dmesg dmesg! that said, it sounds like you have one nic with four ports, not one card with 4 nics.
Re: 4 port router card
Full lspci(8) / pciconf(8) and dmesg(8) output would help us answer the question. ~~BAS On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 13:30 -0400, Steve Glaus wrote: nterface. Is it possible this is just a 'switching' card and I cant route traffic across the ports? It has a realtek RTL8305SC controller chip on it - which according to what I've read has 5 MAC's - Maybe I'm not understanding what this card is supposed to do correctly. Shouldn't OpenBSD provide four ral interfaces when you boot with this card? Is there something I need to change to get openbsd to recognize the additional ports. I've read that there may be problems with 'older' computers. I have this in a PIII - perhaps that would qualify as 'older' ? -- Brian A. Seklecki [EMAIL PROTECTED] Collaborative Fusion, Inc. IMPORTANT: This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If the reader of this message is not an intended recipient (or the individual responsible for the delivery of this message to an intended recipient), please be advised that any re-use, dissemination, distribution or copying of this message is prohibited. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system.
Re: 4 port router card
http://xorg.freedesktop.org/archive/X11R6.8.0/doc/scanpci.1.html On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 14:14 -0400, Bret Lambert wrote: On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 14:03 -0400, Brian A. Seklecki wrote: Full lspci(8) / pciconf(8) and dmesg(8) output would help us answer the question. ~~BAS From www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi: No manual entry for lspci. No manual entry for pciconf. -- Brian A. Seklecki [EMAIL PROTECTED] Collaborative Fusion, Inc. IMPORTANT: This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If the reader of this message is not an intended recipient (or the individual responsible for the delivery of this message to an intended recipient), please be advised that any re-use, dissemination, distribution or copying of this message is prohibited. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system.
Re: 4 port router card
Steve Glaus wrote: I bought a Realtek based 4 port pci 10/110 card off of ebay. I was hoping I would be able to use this card to set-up for individual networks. When I boot the card in openbsd it only comes up with one (ral0) interface. Is it possible this is just a 'switching' card and I cant route traffic across the ports? It has a realtek RTL8305SC controller chip on it - which according to what I've read has 5 MAC's - Maybe I'm not understanding what this card is supposed to do correctly. I'm gonna guess I know what you have, unfortunately, your description is horribly incomplete. These things are great...IF you know what they are, and how they work. I bought one of these things because I didn't believe it was how it was advertised. I really need to quit doing that, spending money to find out HOW I'm getting scammed is kinda sick. :) It's a single port NIC with a five-port switch on it. One port is attached to the card directly. The ports on the ones I have seen are all auto-detecting, no cross-over cables needed. That makes these cards darned useful for some applications. BUT, not if you were expecting a four-port NIC. Shouldn't OpenBSD provide four ral interfaces when you boot with this card? Is there something I need to change to get openbsd to recognize the additional ports. as already mentioned, not ral(4), and OpenBSD will do the right thing with this card. It may not be what YOU thought was right, however. :) I've read that there may be problems with 'older' computers. I have this in a PIII - perhaps that would qualify as 'older' ? not in my book. :) (not in the manufacturer's, either). WHY do they call it a router card? Well, add the card to your (windows) computer which has an EXISTING NIC, install their routing software, ta-da, you have just turned your $1000 computer into a $30 router...'cept it is vulnerable to every Windows virus. You didn't see that part about existing NIC did you? :) One gotcha with these cards: as the NIC is directly attached to a switch, it always shows link, even if no other device is attached to the switch. There are lots of really cool things you can do with these cards, but they most certainly are not four-port NICs. Nick.
