Re: Good 4 port NIC

2005-05-10 Thread Diana Eichert
I realize the buyer is in India, but there are many Adaptec ANA-6944A/TX Quad Port 10/100 Ethernet Network Interface Card for ~ US$20 range. Just for grins I just bid on a 4port GigE Intel card on eBay, killer price if it stays that low. $1.25 ;-) diana

Re: Good 4 port NIC

2005-05-10 Thread 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 '

Re: Good 4 port NIC

2005-05-10 Thread Henning Brauer
* Jason Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-05-10 21:49]: > On May 10, 2005, at 1:28 PM, Tony Del Porto wrote: > > >On May 10, 2005, at 9:35 AM, Alen Capalik wrote: > > > >>Very good card and cheap too > >> > >>Soekris 4-port 10/100 > > > >I've had problems with the Soekris card and large numbers of c

Re: Good 4 port NIC

2005-05-10 Thread Jason Dixon
On May 10, 2005, at 1:28 PM, Tony Del Porto wrote: On May 10, 2005, at 9:35 AM, Alen Capalik wrote: Very good card and cheap too Soekris 4-port 10/100 I've had problems with the Soekris card and large numbers of clients (200-300 active): The lan1641 (and lan1621) by Soekris both use the sis chips.

Re: Good 4 port NIC

2005-05-10 Thread Tony Del Porto
On May 10, 2005, at 9:35 AM, Alen Capalik wrote: Very good card and cheap too Soekris 4-port 10/100 I've had problems with the Soekris card and large numbers of clients (200-300 active): Apr 14 09:00:02 tserver dhcpd: send_packet: No buffer space available Apr 14 09:00:02 tserver named[1270

Re: Good 4 port NIC

2005-05-10 Thread Alen Capalik
Very good card and cheap too Soekris 4-port 10/100 http://www.soekris.com/lan16x1.htm Hope this helps. Alen Capalik Siju George wrote: On 5/10/05, Nick Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Siju George wrote: Hi all, Could someone please suggest me a good 4 port NIC ( I mean I will be able to

Re: Good 4 port NIC

2005-05-10 Thread Siju George
On 5/10/05, Nick Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Siju George wrote: > > 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

Re: Good 4 port NIC

2005-05-10 Thread Nick Holland
Siju George wrote: > 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 pa

Re: Good 4 port NIC

2005-05-10 Thread Stuart Henderson
--On 10 May 2005 15:03 +0530, Siju George wrote: > 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?? The thread

Re: Good 4 port NIC

2005-05-10 Thread Siju George
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?? > > > No

Re: Good 4 port NIC

2005-05-10 Thread Joerg Lenneis
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

Re: Good 4 port NIC

2005-05-10 Thread Siju George
On 5/10/05, Siju George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 a