From owner-freebsd-current Thu Aug 20 23:04:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA13678 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 23:04:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (obelix.trw.nl [195.193.64.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA13673 for ; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 23:04:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.1/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA00379; Fri, 21 Aug 1998 08:00:10 +0200 (CEST) To: Chris Dillon cc: "John W. DeBoskey" , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Intel PRO/1000 Gigabit Adapter In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 20 Aug 1998 23:36:45 CDT." Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 08:00:09 +0200 Message-ID: <377.903679209@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >*drool*... Just out of curiosity, what do these things cost? And can >you get them with singlemode fiber interfaces? It is currently going >to cost me about $10k for the conversion equipment to connect all of >our buildings at 100Mbit (would need 10 100BTX -> singlemode >converters. I have 5 remote buildings), and if I could just go >directly between two of these cards (in FreeBSD boxes of course) with >singlemode fiber I think I'd be in heaven. Why not consider ATM cards with single mode fiber then ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." "ttyv0" -- What UNIX calls a $20K state-of-the-art, 3D, hi-res color terminal To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message