On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 01:17:50PM -0800, Doug Ambrisko wrote: > > The DFE-580 is EOL. That is their solution to their less then optimal > card with no replacement coming according to our rep. We are using our > own custom board with the Realtek 8100L parts. > > | any suggestions (with benchmark results ?) heartily welcome ! > > I need to find them however, you need to benchmark in your environment > since CPU load etc can effect things. > > PHK found a 4 port fxp card that was priced pretty good. I don't know > how successful he has with them.
I have had good luck with the Adaptec Quartet 66 cards, under both Linux and FreeBSD. YMMV, though. They come as 64-bit/66Mhz cards, which definitely keeps the 4 pipes full (though they will also work on a 64-bit/33Mhz bus). They work great with Cisco FEC too. The card has a PCI-to-PCI bridge onboard with four Starfire controllers hanging off of the end of it. If you look around you can get them reasonably cheap. I think I paid around $300 for the last one I bought after doing some thorough pricewatch scouring. It's a bit pricier than you'll pay for say a D-Link card or something but it's also got higher quality ethernet controllers on it. Chances are if you really need a four-port card $300 is not that much to throw at it. HTH, Brandon D. Valentine -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.geekpunk.net Pseudo-Random Googlism: brandon is something special as an institution To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
