On 2006/07/05 21:45, Daniel Ouellet wrote: > > I'm in the process of building firewall (Obviously it will run OpenBSD) > >and I need to put in a quad NIC card. There's Intel Quad card that I had > >a success with in the past but is expensive as hell. I found a company > >called Mikrotik that makes a Quad NIC card and I'm looking for > >success/failure stories of running it in a OpenBSD box ... > > Soooo, I would guess it is not supported. May be you know the chipset > they use and then you can go back and look if it is on the list and if > so, it might work.
Current ones are vr(4), their older ones are sis(4), There's also Soekris lan1641, which is another sis(4). Second-hand you'll sometimes find dc(4) including some that have been pulled from NetApps (might not fit smaller cases), hme(4), and sf(4) (which I never tried). > As for the Intel expensive one, may be expensive for a reason. It does work. In general, yes, though the last one I used needed a little time in the PC's BIOS to adjust IRQ routing so I could see all the ports. I've also seen a failure mode where the whole machine wouldn't POST until the card was pulled (I'm sure it happens with other cards too, but it happened to me recently with one of these so I can remember it!)
