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Date:      Fri, 23 Sep 2005 09:40:26 +1000
From:      Antony Mawer <fbsd-net@mawer.org>
To:        freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        olli@lurza.secnetix.de
Subject:   Re: VIA VT6103 support (VIA EPIA PD)
Message-ID:  <433340EA.7080202@mawer.org>
In-Reply-To: <200509221040.j8MAep8Q063279@lurza.secnetix.de>
References:  <200509221040.j8MAep8Q063279@lurza.secnetix.de>

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On 22/09/2005 8:40 PM, Oliver Fromme wrote:
> Therefore I'd like to ask:  Does the VIA VT6103 work with-
> out problems under FreeBSD (RELENG_5 or RELENG_6, or maybe
> even RELENG_4)?
> 
> Better yet:  Does someone use an EPIA PD* board with both
> on-board interfaces under FreeBSD without problems?

I'm using one of the PD10000 EPIA machines as a mail 
server/router/firewall/etc at home and it performs quite nicely at the 
job. I haven't noticed any problems with the network on it...:

> # netstat -I vr0
> Name    Mtu Network       Address              Ipkts Ierrs    Opkts Oerrs  Coll
> vr0    1500 <Link#1>      00:40:63:df:4d:59 38411131     0  7849020     0     0
> vr0    1500 fe80:1::240:6 fe80:1::240:63ff:        0     -        4     -     -
> vr0    1500 220.237.120   c220-237-120-88.t  6020433     -  3433159     -     -
> # netstat -I vr1
> Name    Mtu Network       Address              Ipkts Ierrs    Opkts Oerrs  Coll
> vr1    1500 <Link#2>      00:40:63:df:4d:09 17437095     0 16348674     0     0
> vr1    1500 10.4/16       scooby               20150     - 10852607     -     -
> vr1    1500 fe80:2::240:6 fe80:2::240:63ff:        0     -        4     -     -

and

> # dmesg | grep -E 'vr0|vr1'
> vr0: <VIA VT6105 Rhine III 10/100BaseTX> port 0xd000-0xd0ff mem 0xe6400000-0xe64000ff irq 10 at device 15.0 on pci0
> miibus0: <MII bus> on vr0
> vr0: Ethernet address: 00:40:63:df:4d:59
> vr1: <VIA VT6102 Rhine II 10/100BaseTX> port 0xe400-0xe4ff mem 0xe6402000-0xe64020ff irq 11 at device 18.0 on pci0
> miibus1: <MII bus> on vr1
> vr1: Ethernet address: 00:40:63:df:4d:09


It's currently running 6.0-BETA2 (although I'll be bringing it 
up-to-date with the latest RELENG_6 shortly; buildworld on the machine 
does take a while so I'll probably NFS mount it off another faster machine!)

Cheers
Antony




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