From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 9 16:23:41 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 236D637B401 for ; Fri, 9 May 2003 16:23:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.openserve.net (mail.openserve.net [208.12.101.249]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F151D43FB1 for ; Fri, 9 May 2003 16:23:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bsd@hub3.net) Received: (qmail 83881 invoked from network); 9 May 2003 23:23:38 -0000 Received: from gw.hub3.net (HELO hub3.net) (bryan@208.12.101.245) by mail.openserve.net with SMTP; 9 May 2003 23:23:38 -0000 Date: Fri, 9 May 2003 16:23:38 -0700 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v552) From: Bryan Vyhmeister To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <200305092109.h49L9dM7038788@gw.catspoiler.org> Message-Id: <43BC1034-8275-11D7-9641-000393D5E5DA@hub3.net> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.552) Subject: Re: Dual ethernet card X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 May 2003 23:23:41 -0000 On Friday, May 9, 2003, at 02:09 PM, Don Lewis wrote: > On 9 May, Randy Smith wrote: >> On Fri, 9 May 2003, D.Pageau wrote: >> >>> Date: Fri, 09 May 2003 11:07:29 -0400 >>> From: D.Pageau >>> To: "freebsd-isp@freebsd.org" >>> Subject: Dual ethernet card >>> >>> I have a FreeBSD box in 1U Rackmount case, I only have one PCI slot >>> availaible (1U) and I need 3 Ethernet interfaces, one is onboard the >>> other 2 interfaces should be a dual ethernet card. >>> >>> Do you have any experience with this kind of interface, which one >>> (brand/model) is know to be working fine under FreeBSD. >>> >> >> I've had good experiences with Intel PRO/100 S nics. (It'll get even >> better as FreeBSD gets support for the hardware encryption in the >> nics.) I >> have a couple of 2U servers with them and they have run without any >> nic >> related problems. > > I wish I could say the same. I've got two of these and they have > problems when used with recent versions of the fxp driver in -current. > Packets of certain sizes get truncated. It is possible to test for the > problem by doing > ping -c 216 anotherhost > ping -c 1696 anotherhost > ping -c 3176 anotherhost > ping -c 4656 anotherhost > My cards work fine until I get to size 3176, but I've seen a report > from > someone who had problems with all of the above packet sizes. It's > fairly easy to get things working again by a simple patch to the > driver, > but that disables the newer features on these cards. > > My cards also have a problem at initial power up. When the box is > first > powered up the cards are not visible to either the BIOS or to FreeBSD. > They aren't even visible to Intel's DOS-based diagnostic .exe program. > Hitting the reset switch during the boot or logging onto the console > and > rebooting will fix the problem until the next time the system is > powered > down. The problem happens in two different systems, one is > Celeron-based, and the other is an AMD Athlon-XP. The cards are IBM > OEM > numbered and I got them fairly cheap, so I don't know if there's > anything funny about that particular flavor. Interesting. I have been using lots of Intel cards and I have never had any problems of any kind. All of my cards are either onboard on Intel motherboards or Intel brand cards. I have also been using the Intel 10BT/100BTX PILA8472C3 PRO/100 S Dual Port server adapter. It has worked very well also. The machine with the dual port card is my firewall for my whole network and has been running rock solid for a long time. I have not used them with anything past 5.0 though. I tried all four ping combinations and they all work fine on the cards I tried. Bryan