Re: Quad-port GigE NIC

2006-01-31 Thread Arrigo Triulzi
I found this card which says "low-profile": http://www.lewiz.com/talon3008.html and looks low-profile. Sadly I don't know what the chipset is (Talon doesn't mean much to me), I've asked by e-mail, awaiting their reply. Arrigo

Re: Quad-port GigE NIC

2006-01-31 Thread Arrigo Triulzi
The tech spec of that Quad Port card talks about Width: 10.7 cm (4.2 in.) Length: 16/5 cm (6.5 in.) Which is not low-profile but a normal PCI card. There is no such thing as a half-height slot. There is only low-profile. Because low-profile (64mm) is bigger than half a normal PCI (107mm) card.

Re: Quad-port GigE NIC

2006-01-31 Thread Arrigo Triulzi
AFAIK it is not possible to fit a quad port Ethernet card into a low-profile PCI slot. The 4 RJ45 ports need more space than allowed by the PCI spec. Actually the card in the tinyurl link I sent claims to fit the half-height slot of the HPQ DL320 G3 (I have a 3Ware SATA RAID card in the othe

Quad-port GigE NIC

2006-01-31 Thread Arrigo Triulzi
Does anyone have good experiences with a low-profile PCI Quad-port adapter under OpenBSD? I've found the following which appears to use a Broadcom chipset (bge*): Interphase SlotOptimizerTM 554GB PCI/PCI-X Quad-Port Gigabit Ethernet Adapter http://tinyurl.com/d9bsu I would greatly appr

Routing issue with BIND9 and IPsec

2005-10-19 Thread Arrigo Triulzi
Dear all, I have a very strange interaction between BIND9 and IPsec which I can't understand and I hope someone here can shed some light. An OpenBSD primary DNS server, running BIND9 with a simple named.conf (single view, etc.) also has an IPsec connection over which a tunnel runs connecting