Daniel Polak wrote:
quoted text
> ==== Original message from Fredrik Carlsson at 5-6-2007 18:26
>> I'm planing to set up a new firewall and have a few questions about 
>> what quad ethernet cards people recommend?
>> The server will probably be a Dell PE860 (they seem to be well 
>> supported by OpenBSD), but what quad cards should i buy? what cards 
>> have good performance?
> The Intel quad port card (PWLA8494GT) is supported well by OpenBSD but 
> it is rather expensive.
>
> Daniel
>
If you have not yet acquired the server, might I suggest an iBASE 
FWA-9106 or similar?
It has 6 gig-E ports, on-board CF card slot, PATA and SATA, and 4 DDR400 
memory slots.

Ethernet port-related dmesg porn:
*****mks0*****
ppb0 at pci0 dev 28 function 0 "Intel 82801FB PCIE" rev 0x03
pci1 at ppb0 bus 1
mskc0 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 "Marvell Yukon 88E8053" rev 0x19, Yukon-2 
EC rev. A3 (0x2): irq 12
msk0 at mskc0 port A, address 00:03:2d:xx:xx:xx
eephy0 at msk0 phy 0: Marvell 88E1111 Gigabit PHY, rev. 2
*****mks1*****
ppb1 at pci0 dev 28 function 1 "Intel 82801FB PCIE" rev 0x03
pci2 at ppb1 bus 2
mskc1 at pci2 dev 0 function 0 "Marvell Yukon 88E8053" rev 0x19, Yukon-2 
EC rev. A3 (0x2): irq 15
msk1 at mskc1 port A, address 00:03:2d:xx:xx:xx
eephy1 at msk1 phy 0: Marvell 88E1111 Gigabit PHY, rev. 2
*****mks2*****
ppb2 at pci0 dev 28 function 2 "Intel 82801FB PCIE" rev 0x03
pci3 at ppb2 bus 3
mskc2 at pci3 dev 0 function 0 "Marvell Yukon 88E8053" rev 0x19, Yukon-2 
EC rev. A3 (0x2): irq 15
msk2 at mskc2 port A, address 00:03:2d:xx:xx:xx
eephy2 at msk2 phy 0: Marvell 88E1111 Gigabit PHY, rev. 2
*****mks3*****
ppb3 at pci0 dev 28 function 3 "Intel 82801FB PCIE" rev 0x03
pci4 at ppb3 bus 4
mskc3 at pci4 dev 0 function 0 "Marvell Yukon 88E8053" rev 0x19, Yukon-2 
EC rev. A3 (0x2): irq 9
msk3 at mskc3 port A, address 00:03:2d:xx:xx:xx
eephy3 at msk3 phy 0: Marvell 88E1111 Gigabit PHY, rev. 2
*****em0*****
em0 at pci5 dev 0 function 0 "Intel PRO/1000MT (82541GI)" rev 0x05: irq 
10, address 00:03:2d:xx:xx:xx
*****em1*****
em1 at pci5 dev 1 function 0 "Intel PRO/1000MT (82541GI)" rev 0x05: irq 
11, address 00:03:2d:xx:xx:xx


It comes in a half-depth 1U case with 2 PCI expansion slots.
I am running mine off a CF card with flashboot.

Here is the spec on the FWA9106 appliance:
http://www.ibasetechnology.net/fwa9106.html

And here is the detailed spec of the motherboard inside:
http://www.ibasetechnology.net/Datasheet/MB893.pdf

It takes an LGA775 915GV chipset cpu and regular DDR400 ram.

/Jason