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Quad port alternatives.

Since the DFE-570 has been discontinued... what are our alternatives? I've found a couple, but can't seem to find a reseller, etc. What Quad ethernet cards are you using?
Phobos p430tx
Z'NYX ZX346Q (just been replaced by a 64-bit card)
DFE-580TX (Removed from HCL, sundance issues)
DFE-570TX (Where can you get them?)
Adaptec ANA-6944A (Dec Chip)
Adaptec ANA-62044 (64-bit)
Cogent EM400 (DEC 21140 chip)
Cogent EM964

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0 Dominic Chan over 22 years ago

is there any bad point of using a quad port nic versus four single port nic? Other than single point of failure? I presume all four port has its own MAC address?
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0 Dominic Chan over 22 years ago

is there any bad point of using a quad port nic versus four single port nic? Other than single point of failure? I presume all four port has its own MAC address?
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0 HTMLSpinnr over 22 years ago in reply to Dominic Chan

We ended up ditching the quad port DE-570 and going with a single GigE interface (Desktop Intel card works just fine) and 802.1q tagged VLAN's. While we lose port redundancy, speed and cable count to the rack have reduced substantially due to this change (less cabling to the switch, etc.), and we've been able to increase the number of networks as a direct result. Note, I still have two 10/100 interfaces built into the box (Dell PE 350)

Unless you can get Astaro to utilize the Quad port in a failover/bandwidth agregation method, you're probably not a whole lot better off with 4 100mbit ports vs. a single GigE if you have other ports available on the box.

YMMV, however.
-Rick
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