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Re: quad ethernet cards
From: "Charles Swiger" <chuck () codefab com>
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 21:56:10 -0400
John McDermott wrote:
I'm building a firewall soon that will be based on a linux 2.4.x kernel. What quad Ethernet cards have you used successfully? I had a D-Link (some new version) and it did not work.
I'm fond of the DEC 21x4x 'Tulip' family, and I've been using three or four of those 4-port 10/100 cards in firewalls without incident. Note that I'm running FreeBSD 4.5, but we'd used Debian and Redhat (or MacOS X DP2) with these cards several years ago. Anyway, the point is that I'd expect these cards to be supported and work well under a new Linux kernel. I believe these were OEM cards from either Dell or maybe Apple, but in case the specific chipset and PCI identification information would be useful, here it is: /kernel: pcib2: <DEC 21152 PCI-PCI bridge> at device 16.0 on pci0 /kernel: pci2: <PCI bus> on pcib2 /kernel: dc0: <Intel 21143 10/100BaseTX> port 0xa000-0xa07f mem 0xf6000000-0xf60003ff irq 9 at device 4.0 on pci2 /kernel: dc0: Ethernet address: 00:80:c8:f8:54:a5 /kernel: miibus1: <MII bus> on dc0 /kernel: ukphy0: <Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface> on miibus1 /kernel: ukphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto /kernel: dc1: <Intel 21143 10/100BaseTX> port 0xa080-0xa0ff mem 0xf6000400-0xf60007ff irq 5 at device 5.0 on pci2 /kernel: dc1: Ethernet address: 00:80:c8:f8:54:a6 /kernel: miibus2: <MII bus> on dc1 /kernel: ukphy1: <Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface> on miibus2 /kernel: ukphy1: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto [ ... ] pcib2@pci0:16:0: class=0x060400 card=0x000000dc chip=0x00241011 rev=0x03 hdr=0x01 vendor = 'Digital Equipment Corporation' device = '21151/2 PCI to PCI Bridge' class = bridge subclass = PCI-PCI dc0@pci2:4:0: class=0x020000 card=0x11101186 chip=0x00191011 rev=0x41 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Digital Equipment Corporation' device = 'DC21142/3 PCI/CardBus 10/100 Mbit Ethernet Ctlr' class = network subclass = ethernet [ ... ] -Chuck _______________________________________________ firewall-wizards mailing list firewall-wizards () honor icsalabs com http://honor.icsalabs.com/mailman/listinfo/firewall-wizards
Current thread:
- quad ethernet cards John McDermott (Sep 12)
- Re: quad ethernet cards David Lang (Sep 12)
- Re: quad ethernet cards Charles Swiger (Sep 13)
- Re: quad ethernet cards Joseph S D Yao (Sep 13)
- Re: quad ethernet cards John McDermott (Sep 13)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: quad ethernet cards Carl Friedberg (Sep 13)
- RE: quad ethernet cards Yin To Chu (Sep 15)