Re: Dual or quad fast ethernet NICs (that work with CentOS)

On Fri, 2010-12-31 at 16:32 -0600, Jeff Hefner wrote:
> I can vouch for the Sun Quad Fast Ethernet (PCI) cards. Quite a while
> back a few co-workers and I had split a small lot of them from eBay
> the broke down to roughly 8 or 9 bucks with shipping. Everyone had
> good luck with whatever they ended up being used for (mostly
> firewalls).
> 
> jeff
> 
Hm, I used one in the past, but had problems with Centos 5 C86_64:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10790 which is still not
solved I believe (but see the BZ for a possible patch).
I don't use it anymore as I need less ethernot ports as I now have a
VLAN capable swith....

Louis

> On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Lamar Owen <lowen@...> wrote:
> > On Tuesday, December 28, 2010 07:13:22 am robert mena wrote:
> >> I am looking for dual or quad fast ethernet NICs that work with CentOS.
> >>  There is no need for high performance so regular fast/pci is ok.
> >
> > I have in a firewall box here a quad fastethernet board; lspci shows:
> > 01:09.0 PCI bridge: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21152 (rev 03)
> > 02:04.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21142/43 (rev 41)
> > 02:05.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21142/43 (rev 41)
> > 02:06.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21142/43 (rev 41)
> > 02:07.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21142/43 (rev 41)
> >
> > This uses the 'tulip' driver, very common, and good performance.