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Intel's quad card is 10/100/1000, and is some sweet hardware. It's still a bit pricey, although it seems to be more cost effective than the adaptec card. They do have a 10/100 dual port card that also looks nice. I've also find a reference to a card made by silicom, but can't find anyone actually selling it, or whether it is supported by FreeBSD. I've also run across a 4 port 10/100 card that appears to be produced by mikrotik, which seems to be running around USD$125 each most places I've found it. Syskonnect also makes some rather nice dual-port gigabit cards. My memory of buying a syskonnect card in the past is that they cost over USD$600. If money weren't an issue, I think I'd lean towards the intel 10/100/1000 quad card. I think I would also encourage the client to replace that lame motherboard of his (all cyrix, including a C3 800MHz processor) with something supporting PCI-X. Money being what it is, I think we'll probably lean towards the mikrotik card. It seems adding the word 'adapter' to the google search terms makes a world of difference. *grin* I'll keep looking, but I think we've found our answer. thanks again, jim On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 09:51:15PM -0800, Mitch (WebCob) wrote: > Intel has a quad card... > > I've been hoping the freebsd guys would implement all the cardlevel > acceleration on it, but don't know if that's happened yet - but last I > checked it detected as multiple fxp's... > > m/ > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Jim Gifford [mailto:jim at giffords dot net] > > Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 9:43 PM > > To: m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch > > Subject: [m0n0wall] quad ethernet cards? > > > > > > So I've got a client with m0n0wall running on a lame motherboard that > > only has 3 PCI slots (all full of 10/100 ethernet cards) and needing more > > ethernet ports now. > > > > About 2 years ago when I was building a roll-my-own linux firewall box I > > bought a d-link quad ethernet card for it, and things were good. I don't > > remember how much it cost, but it wasn't ridiculous. It seems these days > > the only quad 10/100 pci card I can find is the adaptec one, and it is > > very expensive (and has a lot of features that we really don't need > > anyway). > > > > It looks like d-link stopped carrying their card, and googling hasn't > > been very productive. It's amazing how many hubs and switches match the > > search terms, even if 'nic' or 'card' are included in the search. > > > > Does anyone have any recommendations on how to expand this system? > > > > Thanks in advance, > > jim > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: m0n0wall dash unsubscribe at lists dot m0n0 dot ch > > For additional commands, e-mail: m0n0wall dash help at lists dot m0n0 dot ch > > > > > |