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=0x000000dc
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=0x020000 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=0x020000 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=0x020000 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=0x020000 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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