On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 10:25:32PM +0200, Henning Brauer wrote:

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> * N.J. Thomas  [2007-10-24 19:28]:

> > I have two servers that I would like to setup to run OpenBGPD for our

> > border routers.

> >

> > I need to find a supported PCIe (not PCI-X) fiber card that runs

> > multi-mode and a supported PCIe (not PCI-X) fiber card that runs

> > single-mode. (One of our providers is coming to us with mm, the other

> > with sm.)

> >

> > A dual port card is preferable, but we will take single port cards if

> > those are the only ones available.

> >

> > Any recommendations? The supported cards page on the OpenBSD site only

> > lists PCI-X cards.

>

> i have some pcie-ems, there are pcie-bnxs, and certainly others. fibre

> limits your options. i usually terminate wan fibres on a switch and use

> copper or plain sx (really just copper these days) to the routers - has

> the disadvantage that you don't see link state changes directly, has

> the advantage of added flexibility and just connecting two machines for

> redundancy reasons (details differ a lot depending on environment).

>

> that said, it shouldn't be too hard to find a pcie-sx card. lx could

> get hairy.

>

> 

http://www.transtec.co.uk/ they have em(4) based cards with sx and lx (lx

only as pci-x for some strange reason). The also offer msk(4) cards with

sx and lx but those are pci-x only.
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:wq Claudio