On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 6:32 PM, Volker Kuhlmann <list0...@paradise.net.nz>wrote:
> I've been running pfsense for many years (and been very happy with it) > on scrapped PCs with a Sun 4-port Ethernet PCI card because I need 5 > Ethernet ports. > > Now freebsd dieing on the hme driver effectively turns those cards into > scrap and I'm stuck. What are alternatives now? > > Are there any other 4-port cards that are supported by pfsense in > practice (not just in theory), that are also affordable? > I have had success with Intel PRO/1000 based 4-port PCI-X cards. Most old 32-bit PCI motherboards will take a PCI-X card using only half of the card's connectors, which means that all four ports will max out at around 1.5-2 Gigabits across all four ports (due to the limited PCI bandwidth). However, your old Sun machine likely couldn't push 4 Gigabits anyway, so it doesn't really matter. The specific cards that I have been using are Intel PRO/1000 MT 2-port and GT 4-port (which use the 'em' driver), all purchased on eBay and installed in Dell Optiplex GX260 and Optiplex GX280 machines. HTH, Moshe
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