Date: Thu, 02 Oct 1997 18:57:41 -0400 From: Matt Thomas <matt@3am-software.com> To: Tom <tom@uniserve.com> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Which PCI Ethernet card is best for FreeBSD-current? Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19971002185741.0305e1c4@ranier.altavista-software.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971002140726.24987F-100000@shell.uniserve.co m> References: <5117.875818999@critter.freebsd.dk>
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At 02:20 PM 10/2/97 -0700, Tom wrote: > >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. FWIW, the ifmedia already supports this. Depending on if the link is up, media will have IFM_ALIVE set or clear. -- Matt Thomas Internet: matt@3am-software.com 3am Software Foundry WWW URL: http://www.3am-software.com/bio/matt.html Nashua, NH Disclaimer: I disavow all knowledge of this message
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