Dual or quad NIC boards?

[Michael J. Pelletier]

Tyan also makes a nice quad board. Not sure if you are into Opterons or
not...


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Grandi" <grandi at noao.edu>
To: "Shawn Barnhart" <swb at grasslake.net>
Cc: <freebsd-hardware at freebsd.org>
Sent: Friday, March 26, 2004 9:48 AM
Subject: Re: Dual or quad NIC boards?


> On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Shawn Barnhart wrote:
>
> > I'm in the market for a dual or quad NIC board compatible with 4-STABLE
> > (I'll do 5.x if I have to) for a router/firewall.
> >
> > Intel make a couple, are they known to be compatible?  The NOS software
> > compatibilty for the four port model lists it as "FreeBSD (latest
kernel)",
> > whatever that means.
> >
> > The 4-port one is my preference, although I'm not totally thrilled with
the
> > prices I've seen for it -- nearly $500.  Anyone familiar with any
cheaper
> > versions?
>
> The Adaptec ANA-62044 is a 4-port 10/100 NIC that is supported by the sf
> driver on both 4.X and 5.X.  Adaptec seems to have moved onto the
> ANA-64044 (which I don't see mentioned on the sf(4) man page) but 62044
> cards seemed easy to come by on EBay when I bought some spares not too
> long ago.
>
> -- 
> Steve Grandi
> National Optical Astronomy Observatory/AURA Inc., Tucson AZ USA
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