Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 09:24:05 -0500 From: Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Norman Widders <torquemada@paladincorp.com.au> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Multi-NIC cards Message-ID: <0AAB4175-112E-11D8-AD24-003065ABFD92@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.WNT.4.58.0311080022550.-391923@rameau.paladincorp.com.au> References: <Pine.WNT.4.58.0311080022550.-391923@rameau.paladincorp.com.au>
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On Nov 7, 2003, at 8:45 AM, Norman Widders wrote: > Greetings, > > are there any decent quad-port network cards for FreeBSD? Sure. I've got 3 quad-porters based off the DEC Tulip 21x4x, which are recognized like so in `dmesg`: pcib2: <DEC 21152 PCI-PCI bridge> at device 14.0 on pci0 pci2: <PCI bus> on pcib2 dc0: <Intel 21143 10/100BaseTX> port 0xec00-0xec7f mem 0xfcfff800-0xfcfffbff irq 9 at device 4.0 on pci2 dc0: Ethernet address: 00:80:c8:f8:54:75 miibus1: <MII bus> on dc0 ukphy0: <Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface> on miibus1 ukphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto dc1: <Intel 21143 10/100BaseTX> port 0xe880-0xe8ff mem 0xfcfff400-0xfcfff7ff irq 10 at device 5.0 on pci2 dc1: Ethernet address: 00:80:c8:f8:54:76 miibus2: <MII bus> on dc1 ukphy1: <Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface> on miibus2 [ ... ] > Will ipfw/bridging support work with this configuration if I can > find a quad-network card ? sorry if this is in the archives but > if you've done this before, please let me know, TIA! Sure, both IPFW and bridging works fine with or between these interfaces. -- -Chuck
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