Date: Thu, 02 Oct 1997 23:34:10 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Tom <tom@uniserve.com> Cc: sthaug@nethelp.no, jas@flyingfox.com, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Which PCI Ethernet card is best for FreeBSD-current? Message-ID: <5652.875828050@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 02 Oct 1997 14:20:03 PDT." <Pine.BSF.3.96.971002140726.24987F-100000@shell.uniserve.com>
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In message <Pine.BSF.3.96.971002140726.24987F-100000@shell.uniserve.com>, Tom w rites: > >On Thu, 2 Oct 1997, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >> In message <9023.875816283@verdi.nethelp.no>, sthaug@nethelp.no writes: >> >> On the other hand, the only quad cards I know of are based >> >> on the DEC chip; I'll be trying out the Znyx quad card (I think) soon. >> > >> >We have the ZNYX 4-port 10 Mbps card, and the SMC 2-port 100 Mbps card >> >in a FreeBSD machine here. They work very well for us. >> >> I have a machine with 4 of the ZNYX boards (16 ports total) doing the >> "collapsed backbone" thing. Works like a charm, and in difference >> from a cisco that would cost 10 times as much, you can run tcpdump >> and trafshow on it :-) > > I would have liked to have been able to use a solution like that. >However, currently ethernet interfaces that do not have carrier/link >active, still show us UP. I wish that loss of carrier/link would force >the interface into a DOWN state automatically. I realize this would >require some driver changes. Well, go for it :-) -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
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