Re: multiport ethernet cards

From: Alex Malinovich (demonbane_at_the-love-shack.net)
Date: 01/09/05

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    To: debuser <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 10:19:49 -0600

    On Sun, 2005-01-09 at 10:10 +0000, Chris Evans wrote:
    > In relation to debugging my DNS lookup woes (see other posts!) I'm
    > going to buy a spare PCI ethernet card. Since my firewall machine is
    > tiny and quiet, it only has one PCI slot so I'd like to get a
    > multiport, ideally four port, card. Some time back people recommended
    > the Intel Pro multiport cards but they were out of my price range
    > except on Ebay (where I can now only see one two port card). I also
    > had a recommendation for Soekris who have 2 and 4 port cards at prices
    > I can pay and say they have linux support (see end of post for spec).
    >
    > Does anyone have experience of these cards with Woody or have another
    > recommendation?

    While I don't have any experience with the NICs from Soekris, I do use
    their net4801 boxes extensively at work. I've gotten them working with
    both Debian and FreeBSD flawlessly. As the net4801 has 3 ethernet ports
    I'd imagine they're based on either a scaled up lan1621 or a scaled down
    lan1641. This is, of course, pure speculation but given that Soekris
    generally makes very Linux-friendly hardware I'd imagine that their NICs
    would be no exception. 

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