Re: multi-port NIC cards

2006-01-03 Thread martin
--- martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I just ordered both the Mikrotik Routerboard 44 ($89) and the Soekris lan1641 ($95). Both 4-port NIC boards. I'll let you know how the perform. I'm also puzzled by the claims of performance issues and saturating the bus PCI bus previously mentioned as

Re: multi-port NIC cards

2006-01-02 Thread kami petersen
Daniel Ouellet skrev: May be good, but the bus is PCI only if I am not mistaken looking at the spec. Not even PCI Express or PCI X, so it would be interesting to see, but if you are concern about congestions with the Intel one, may be this would be saturating the bus at 33MHz, or may be it

Re: multi-port NIC cards

2006-01-02 Thread RedShift
33 Mhz * 32 bits = 1 056 000 000 bits per tick, 1 056 000 000 / 10^6 (1 megahertz = 10^6 ticks per second) = 1 056 megabits per second 1 056 / 8 = 132 megabytes per second It should actually be 100/3 Mhz. kami petersen wrote: Daniel Ouellet skrev: May be good, but the bus is PCI only if I am

multi-port NIC cards

2006-01-01 Thread martin
Hello. Can anyone recommend a good multi-port NIC card e.g. 4-port, that works OK on OpenBSD with a good source supplier. Regards...Martin Just $16.99/mo. or less. dsl.yahoo.com

Re: multi-port NIC cards

2006-01-01 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Can anyone recommend a good multi-port NIC card e.g. 4-port, that works OK on OpenBSD with a good source supplier. This question was debated a few times in the archive already. So, far there isn't one great card that works very well that still available to purchase new these days. SK based

Re: multi-port NIC cards

2006-01-01 Thread Craig McCormick
On a related subject and please forgive any ignorance on my part, how would the interrupt load compare, between a multi-port NIC and the same number of ports via individual single port NICs? For example, a firewall with one WAN port and three LAN ports. One LAN (and of course the WAN port) port

Re: multi-port NIC cards

2006-01-01 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Craig McCormick wrote: On a related subject and please forgive any ignorance on my part, how would the interrupt load compare, between a multi-port NIC and the same number of ports via individual single port NICs? You don't really have something to compare with. The process is way different

Re: multi-port NIC cards

2006-01-01 Thread martin
--- Daniel Ouellet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone recommend a good multi-port NIC card e.g. 4-port, that works OK on OpenBSD with a good source supplier. This question was debated a few times in the archive already. So, far there isn't one great card that works very well that

Re: multi-port NIC cards

2006-01-01 Thread Daniel Ouellet
martin wrote: Just found this. http://www.routerboard.com/rb44.html Might just buy one and try it out. May be good, but the bus is PCI only if I am not mistaken looking at the spec. Not even PCI Express or PCI X, so it would be interesting to see, but if you are concern about