New router with NIC (4-port HUB) recommandation
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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0033/3/88452356 67100 Strasbourg/France IRC #Debian (irc.icq.com)Quoted 9 lines
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.
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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)
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
Am 2005-02-13 04:19:39, schrieb Peter E. Fry:
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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.
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There must be actual drivers for some of the switch chipsets as
My Router is running under Debian/WOODY with Kernel 2.4.27
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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.
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- 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)
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Best o' luck.
Peter E. Fry
Greetings
Michelle
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0033/3/88452356 67100 Strasbourg/France IRC #Debian (irc.icq.com)Quoted 11 lines · Michelle Konzack
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.
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Greetings and nice Sunday
Michelle
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