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@xxxxxxxx> 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.
> >
> > I have another one, but this one uses the 21140 instead of the 21142. Still the tulip driver. Part number on it is 'COM-0040-50' or 123400-21-998, googling gives me that it's a Sun part....it's 32-bit PCI.
> >
> > The older Sun Quad Fast Ethernet (PCI) should also work fine; uses sunhme driver, IIRC, which is in the vanilla C5 kernel (I just checked the latest updated kernel; should be in all of them). The ones I found on eBay (starting at the high price of $9.99 free shipping) are 64-bit, but should work fine in a 32-bit slot, just slower.
> >
> > Also, I have in hand a couple of dual-port boards made by Intel; Pro/100+ Dual, part 711269-004; has two 82558B controllers and an Intel-sourced 21152 bridge (32-bit PCI). I have one of these in a CentOS 3 box, and it works fine.
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