pci switch card

[Lord Sporkton]

I waslooking at a commercial firewall recently and i noticed it has a
built a wan port, a dmz port and then a built in switch which it
considers the lan port, i was wondering if there is a switch card or
a pci card with multiple ethernet ports that could be iused as a
switch,much the same way that the multiple ports in a sokris can be
bridged, however they would be a real switch not just just ethernet
ports bridged together and would provide petter performance.

the firewall i was looking at was a sonicwall TZ190

-- 
-Lawrence

Re: pci switch card

[Stuart Henderson]

On 2008/01/13 16:16, Lord Sporkton wrote:
 I waslooking at a commercial firewall recently and i noticed it has a
 built a wan port, a dmz port and then a built in switch which it
 considers the lan port, i was wondering if there is a switch card or
 a pci card with multiple ethernet ports that could be iused as a
 switch,

yes, e.g. http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=A-3500-WBcat=NET
they use a single-chip 5-port switch like RTL8305SC.

they used to be all over ebay sold as quad ethernet cards, but I can't
seem to find them there any more.

I'm not sure, it might be necessary to port freebsd's rlswitch mii
driver to make them work though.

the chip also supports vlans (configured by programming the eeprom
and soft-resetting as per http://realtek.info/pdf/rtl8305sc.pdf).