Quad network cards for Intel/PC OpenBSD 3.0

[Magnus Sandberg <Magnus_(_dot_)_Sandberg_(_at_)_bluelabs_(_dot_)_se>]

Hi,

I'm not yet on the list but hope that I can post to the list without be 
considered sending spam???


I'm new to (Open)BSD but have looked into OpenBSD a year ago or so but never 
started using it... I'm quite experienced with Linux and Solaris.

My plan is to set up a OpenBSD firewall, with NAT, for my home network which 
will connect to the Internet via ADSL. I plan to have four network 
interfaces on this machine. My question is - what four port network cards 
does OpenBSD 3.0 support? In the maillist archive I saw a post from October 
1999 about some support for D-Link DFE-570. What is the status today?

Thanks!


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 ----- Post from October 1999 ----

Peter Galbavy (Peter_(_dot_)_Galbavy_(_at_)_knowledge_(_dot_)_com)
Wed, 6 Oct 1999 10:20:51 +0100


To add to the OpenBSD supported hardware list:

This is the dmesg output for the DLink DFE-570TX quad port Ethernet
card.

ppb1 at pci0 dev 11 function 0 "DEC DECchip 21152 PCI-PCI" rev 0x03
pci2 at ppb1 bus 2
de0 at pci2 dev 4 function 0 "DEC DECchip 21142/3" rev 0x41: irq 10
de0: 21143 [10-100Mb/s] pass 4.1 address 00:80:c8:4e:d6:88
de1 at pci2 dev 5 function 0 "DEC DECchip 21142/3" rev 0x41: irq 9
de1: 21143 [10-100Mb/s] pass 4.1 address 00:80:c8:4e:d6:89
de2 at pci2 dev 6 function 0 "DEC DECchip 21142/3" rev 0x41: irq 9
de2: 21143 [10-100Mb/s] pass 4.1 address 00:80:c8:4e:d6:8a
de3 at pci2 dev 7 function 0 "DEC DECchip 21142/3" rev 0x41: irq 11
de3: 21143 [10-100Mb/s] pass 4.1 address 00:80:c8:4e:d6:8b
...
de0: enabling 10baseT port
de1: autosense failed: cable problem?
de2: autosense failed: cable problem?
de3: autosense failed: cable problem?

So far only tested on 10BaseT (out of the office until tomorrow) but
at least one port works fine at 10Mb/sec.

The main advantage of this card is that it is *cheap*. In the UK the
dealer price is 139 pounds (about US$220 ?) from www.dabs.co.uk. This
is about one third (yes 33%) of the price of the Adaptec (Cogent) part
of the same function.

We will do further testing later this week.

Regards,

-- 
Peter Galbavy
Knowledge Matters Ltd
http://www.knowledge.com/