Re: Good 4 port NIC

[Erik Carlseen]

I'll have to second the responses suggesting Intel-based NICs. IMHE  (In 
my humble experience) they tend to not have tiny nagging bus / dma 
problems that have plagued other cards I have dealt with (which, in 
turn, have resulted in hundreds of hours of troubleshooting). I've also 
been lazy and 'magically' fixed some bizzare networking problems by 
simply replacing the NIC with something by Intel, on a variety of 
operating systems - DOS, OS/2, WinNT 3.51 - 2K3, and Linux. I haven't 
performed any such miracles under *BSD, but I'd venture a reasonable bet 
that similar occurances should be expected. Of course, YMMV, and I've 
had my share of flaky Intel NICs, however, in each instance it turned 
out to be a defective part rather than a design issue.

They used to produce a 4-port 10/100 card; they now only offer a 4-port 
10/100/1000 card (Part # PWLA8494MT) for around US$479. A very cool 
thing about this card is that it works in any 3.3 volt 32- or 64-bit 
PCI-X 1.0 or PCI 2.2 bus - generally speaking, if it physically plugs 
in, it will autonegotiate the PCI bus and work just fine (of course, 
faster bus == more possible throughput).

Hope this helps,
Erik Carlseen
Siju George wrote:
On 10 May 2005 11:08:02 +0200, Joerg Lenneis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Siju George:

Hi all,
Could someone please suggest me a good 4 port NIC ( I mean I will be
able to use it in the same way as I use 4 NICs but it will only
consume only 1 PCI slot) for OpenBSD 3.7??

Not a Gigabit one please

Sorry vetrans, I am a little behind in hardware part :-(  but sure I
am catching up :-)

And if somebody wants me to define what I mean by "good" then

good = nice perfomance i.e one that will not give me the error the
current NIC gives me

" dc0: watchdog timeout "

Thankyou all so much

Kind Regards

Siju
Have a look at the lan1641:
http://www.soekris.com/lan16x1.htm
You can get it from www.kd85.com in Europe. I don't have personal
experience, but they specifically support all *BSDs and Linux and it
is pretty inexpensive.

Thanks a lot Joerg :-)
another friend had let me know of this one offline
but it 's not available in India :-(
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And replacement will also be difficult in this arangement.
Thanks a lot to be of help :-)
good luck
kind regards
Siju