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

[Michelle Konzack <linux4michelle@freenet.de>]

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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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