[CentOS] Dual or quad fast ethernet NICs (that work with CentOS)

Sat Jan 1 10:42:16 UTC 2011
Jeff Hefner <jeffhefner at gmail.com>

I know I didn't have the luxury of 2GB of ram at the time and would
have been on a 32-bit only CPU. Possibly my scant hardware might have
saved me a headache. Or maybe my memory is just getting worse as time
wears on. :) I also recall playing with it on OpenBSD and FreeBSD as
well.

jeff

On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 4:27 AM, Louis Lagendijk
<louis at lagendijk.xs4all.nl> wrote:
> 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 at pari.edu> 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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