[OT] New router with NIC (4-port HUB) recommandation

[OT] New router with NIC (4-port HUB) recommandation

[Michelle Konzack]

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Hello all,

I am installing a new Router and have some problems with the NIC's,
because I need to much  :-) 

I have 4 ADSL-Modem Router (4 IP's, each 8 MBit/512 kBit) which I
like to connect to one (!) NIC. Because of lacking place for an
external HUB/Switch I like to buy a NIC with a 4-port-HUB inside.

Can anyone recommand such 100 MBit NIC ?
(I do not have very much money curently)

Greetings and nice Sunday
Michelle

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Re: [OT] New router with NIC (4-port HUB) recommandation

[Andrew Schulman]

> I am installing a new Router and have some problems with the NIC's,
> because I need to much  :-)
> 
> I have 4 ADSL-Modem Router (4 IP's, each 8 MBit/512 kBit) which I
> like to connect to one (!) NIC. Because of lacking place for an
> external HUB/Switch I like to buy a NIC with a 4-port-HUB inside.
> 
> Can anyone recommand such 100 MBit NIC ?
> (I do not have very much money curently)

I am currently using an Asound AL500P 4-port PCI hub.  It cost about $13 on
pricewatch.  It has an ADMtek AN983B chipset, and runs with the tulip
driver.  This is a dirt-cheap solution-- a single chipset serving a 4-port
hub.  But it has been working just fine in our home LAN for most of a year
now.  

You may also want to ask on comp.os.linux.hardware.

Re: [OT] New router with NIC (4-port HUB) recommandation

[Peter E. Fry]

On 13 Feb 2005 at 9:30, Michelle Konzack wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> I am installing a new Router and have some problems with the NIC's,
> because I need to much  :-) 
> 
> I have 4 ADSL-Modem Router (4 IP's, each 8 MBit/512 kBit) which I like
> to connect to one (!) NIC. Because of lacking place for an external
> HUB/Switch I like to buy a NIC with a 4-port-HUB inside.
> 
> Can anyone recommand such 100 MBit NIC ?
> (I do not have very much money curently)

  Now there's a voice from the past.  OK, a year or two.
  Hmm.  As Andrew said...  I've heard of applications where folks 
need a single MAC and/or IP, so the hub card is nice.  But yours 
sounds like four independent links, so a true quad NIC should work as 
well.
  There must be actual drivers for some of the switch chipsets as 
well, to support devices like the LinkSys 802.11 boxes -- where you 
can tag the internal port for four independent links.  More versatile 
than a quad NIC, but other than that, not terribly useful.
  I'd personally go for a quad NIC, just because I used a bunch back 
in my LRP days.  I'd send you one, but I gave them all away long ago -
- I'm down to a crusty old Compaq dual TLAN.  (If you were looking 
for ATM, FDDI, ATM, DS3, more ATM, an old Alpha, or some other 
useless junk, I could help.)  Quad NICs are all over eBay here, but 
they don't seem to be as common in Europe.  And the hub NICs are 
cheap, and some folks have had success with 'em.
  Best o' luck.

Peter E. Fry

Re: [OT] New router with NIC (4-port HUB) recommandation

[Michelle Konzack]

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Am 2005-02-13 04:19:39, schrieb Peter E. Fry:

>   Now there's a voice from the past.  OK, a year or two.
>   Hmm.  As Andrew said...  I've heard of applications where folks 
> need a single MAC and/or IP, so the hub card is nice.  But yours 
> sounds like four independent links, so a true quad NIC should work as 
> well.

In theory... But I have only 8 IP's free. If I use a Quad-NIC
I need for times a /30 Network which are effectiv 16 IP's.

Curently I have:

publicnet       /192    192.168.1.0-63
privatenet      /224    192.168.1.64-95
securenet       /240    192.168.1.96-111
cybernet        /248    192.168.1.112-119
wavenet         /128    192.168.1.128-255

So I have only one /248 in 192.168.1.120-127 left

Note:   I must configure it like that, because in the next
        time I will get a whole /24 public iP range.

>   There must be actual drivers for some of the switch chipsets as 

My Router is running under Debian/WOODY with Kernel 2.4.27

>   I'd personally go for a quad NIC, just because I used a bunch back 
> in my LRP days.  I'd send you one, but I gave them all away long ago -
        ^^^
  Long time ago for me... it was Version 2.9.4 with Dave C.

> - I'm down to a crusty old Compaq dual TLAN.  (If you were looking 
> for ATM, FDDI, ATM, DS3, more ATM, an old Alpha, or some other 
> useless junk, I could help.)  Quad NICs are all over eBay here, but 
> they don't seem to be as common in Europe.  And the hub NICs are 
> cheap, and some folks have had success with 'em.

I was searchin eBay for Quad-NIC, but nothing found in France/Germany.
And sellers in UK or the USA do not sell to EU because the Transport
is to expensive.

Best is, if I know some types of "cheap" NICS with 4-port HUB, then
I can search it in <http://www.preisvergleich.de/> but without any
knowledge of types I am lost. 

I know only the Intel GBit Quad-NIC which I have in Paris in a
P4-Router in 3 X-PCI-Slots (64 Bit and 66 MHz)

>   Best o' luck.
> 
> Peter E. Fry

Greetings
Michelle

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Re: [OT] New router with NIC (4-port HUB) recommandation

[Jose Maria Lopez Hernandez]

El dom, 13-02-2005 a las 09:30 +0100, Michelle Konzack escribió:
> Hello all,
> 
> I am installing a new Router and have some problems with the NIC's,
> because I need to much  :-) 
> 
> I have 4 ADSL-Modem Router (4 IP's, each 8 MBit/512 kBit) which I
> like to connect to one (!) NIC. Because of lacking place for an
> external HUB/Switch I like to buy a NIC with a 4-port-HUB inside.
> 
> Can anyone recommand such 100 MBit NIC ?
> (I do not have very much money curently)

I was looking for a quad ethernet NIC sometime ago for a client
and I found a Tulip that worked OK with Linux and appeared as
four independent ethernet interfaces. But I didn't wrote down
the exact model, so you will have to google a bit.

> Greetings and nice Sunday
> Michelle

Regards

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