Mikrotik 4 Port ethernet card

[acriollo]

Hi guys,

Some body knows or had used the Mikrotik four ports ethernet card for a production or test system ?

This is the model
Mikrotik RB44Ge

Any comment would be appreciated.

Regards.

[robi]

Couldn't find its chipset, Atheros AR8131/M, in the FreeBSD 8.1 Hardware Compatibility List

[jasonlitka]

If you're looking for an inexpensive quad then look at the Soekris lan1841.  It should be supported since it uses the Intel 82574 chips.  Be aware though that since it's a single lane of PCI-e that you won't be able to max out all 4 ports at once.  You'll be limited to 2.5Gbit/s in each direction at a time (which is still more than likely far higher than you'll need).

[robi]

Thats more than 600Mbps per port when all of them are maxed in parrallel.

Perfect with an Atom board, wich can do about the same routing speed.

[ptt]

Just have done a quick test, not used on production, on pfSense 2.0.1 AMD64, and it seems to work… sorry if i cant be of more help....

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=alc&apropos=0&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+8.1-RELEASE&arch=default&format=html

Dmesg:

alc0: <atheros ar8131="" pcie="" gigabit="" ethernet="">port 0xa800-0xa87f mem 0xfe8c0000-0xfe8fffff irq 19 at device 0.0 on pci4
alc0: 15872 Tx FIFO, 15360 Rx FIFO
alc0: Using 1 MSI message(s).
miibus0: <mii bus="">on alc0
atphy0: <atheros 10="" 100="" 1000="" f1="" phy="">PHY 0 on miibus0
atphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseT-FDX, auto
alc0: [FILTER]
pcib5: <pci-pci bridge="">irq 19 at device 5.0 on pci3
pci5: <pci bus="">on pcib5
alc1: <atheros ar8131="" pcie="" gigabit="" ethernet="">port 0xb800-0xb87f mem 0xfe9c0000-0xfe9fffff irq 19 at device 0.0 on pci5
alc1: 15872 Tx FIFO, 15360 Rx FIFO
alc1: Using 1 MSI message(s).
miibus1: <mii bus="">on alc1
atphy1: <atheros 10="" 100="" 1000="" f1="" phy="">PHY 0 on miibus1
atphy1:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseT-FDX, auto
alc1: [FILTER]
pcib6: <pci-pci bridge="">irq 17 at device 7.0 on pci3
pci6: <pci bus="">on pcib6
alc2: <atheros ar8131="" pcie="" gigabit="" ethernet="">port 0xc800-0xc87f mem 0xfeac0000-0xfeafffff irq 17 at device 0.0 on pci6
alc2: 15872 Tx FIFO, 15360 Rx FIFO
alc2: Using 1 MSI message(s).
miibus2: <mii bus="">on alc2
atphy2: <atheros 10="" 100="" 1000="" f1="" phy="">PHY 0 on miibus2
atphy2:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseT-FDX, auto
alc2: [FILTER]
pcib7: <pci-pci bridge="">irq 19 at device 9.0 on pci3
pci7: <pci bus="">on pcib7
alc3: <atheros ar8131="" pcie="" gigabit="" ethernet="">port 0xd800-0xd87f mem 0xfebc0000-0xfebfffff irq 19 at device 0.0 on pci7
alc3: 15872 Tx FIFO, 15360 Rx FIFO
alc3: Using 1 MSI message(s).
miibus3: <mii bus="">on alc3
atphy3: <atheros 10="" 100="" 1000="" f1="" phy="">PHY 0 on miibus3
atphy3:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseT-FDX, auto
alc3: [FILTER]</atheros></mii></atheros></pci></pci-pci></atheros></mii></atheros></pci></pci-pci></atheros></mii></atheros></pci></pci-pci></atheros></mii></atheros> 

[acriollo]

Thanks a lot ptt.

Did you had to make some kind of "special" configuration on the CLI or pfsense recognize the card since the begining ?

Thanks again
Regards

[ptt]

No, nothing special, it is detected without any problem… I just booted from a pendrive with the "pfSense-memstick-2.0.1-RELEASE-amd64.img" written on it  ;)