Cheap QUAD Port Nics

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Stanza

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Sun ATLS1QGE Cards

$25.95 Free Ship
Low Profile
Sun Quad Port PCIe Gigabit Network Adapter 501 7606 06 Low Profile ATLS1QGE | eBay

$29.99 plus $5 post
High Profile (I think from the bad photo)
Sun Oracle 511 1422 Quad Port Gigabit Ethernet Adapter UTP X4447A Z ATLS1QGE | eBay

Features
The Sun Quad GbE UTP x8 PCI Express Card addresses the following requirements
and provides additional features and benefits:
■ Four 10/100/1000Base-T Ethernet interfaces
■ IEEE 802.3ab compliant
■ Uses Sun’s ASIC and software for innovative throughput networking design
■ Networking I/O virtualization supporting Solaris LDOM 1.0. (VMware support
planned for mid 07)
■ Hardware-based flow classification for extending parallelism and virtualization to
networking
■ Up to 16 Receive DMA channels and up to 24 Transmit DMA channels, multiple
receive and transmit Descriptor Rings and dedicated networking hardware
resources (DMA, interrupts, buffer, and more) for each thread or strand
■ CPU/thread affinity and CPU load balancing at L1,L2,L3 and L4
■ Dynamic Reconfiguration (DR)
■ Jumbo frame support (up to 9KBytes)
■ IPv4/IPv6 and IPMP support
■ TCP/UDP/IP checksum and CRC32C support
■ IEEE 802.1Q VLAN support
■ IEEE 802.1AD Link Aggregation support

Info here
https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19113-01/x8quad.giga.utp/820-0115-16/820-0115-16.pdf
 

RTM

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Not a bad price if you can use the NIC.

According to this thread on the pfsense forum, it does not work on pfsense 2.1 or 2.2.
 

Darkytoo

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be aware, nic cards that old tend to inhale power, I had some HP dual port nics that have a 30 watt TDP, I would expect these to be around 40-60watt. I upgraded to i350 cards, they only have a TDP of 5 watts and have all the latest features. You can get OEM dells for around $100-$150.
 

Stanza

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specs say

TABLE A-4 Power Requirements
Specification Measurement
Power consumption 14.51W typical - 17.83 W peak
Voltage 12V and 3.3V