Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 22:52:19 -0600 (CST) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> To: ulf@lamb.net (Ulf Zimmermann) Cc: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com, rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com, jc@irbs.com, gclarkii@main.gbdata.com, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: multiport ethernet Message-ID: <199611280452.WAA20324@brasil.moneng.mei.com> In-Reply-To: <199611272352.PAA01028@Bitch.Melmac.org> from "Ulf Zimmermann" at Nov 27, 96 03:52:24 pm
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> > Like I wrote earlier, look at the Znyx pages too. They have all kind > of 2 and 4 port cards. Only 10mbit and 10/100. All cards also with full > duplex. Or with switching. Etc. > > > > > Quoting Gary Clark II (gclarkii@main.gbdata.com): > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > > > Has one used the Cogent Quartet lately? I need to produce a low > > > > > cost ethernet router here and this thing looks like it should give > > > > > me the most bang for the buck. > > > > > > > > > > > > > SMC has a dual port 10/100 card, SMC8434, that can be had for > > > > $230US. If you don't need high port density this one may be a > > > > better deal. Don't know if it works with the de driver. > > > > > > WARNING!!! The SMC8434 requieres a motherboard that routes both > > > PCI INT A and B to the slot, very few if any PCI 2.x compliant > > > boards do this. Nothing from ASUS can run this card, infact about > > > the only thing I have found that can run this card is old PCI 1.x > > > boards with jumpers to manually route the interrupts. > > > > When I was looking around the SMC pages, it appeared to me that the SMC8434 > > was the 10baseT only variant, and there was a 10/100 variant (SMC9332 > > maybe?). > > > > Point being: don't go out and buy an 8434 unless you verify the feature > > set. ;-) > > > > Just a handy tip. > > > > Related: > > > > Are there any good dual port DEC21x4x based cards currently supported by > > FreeBSD? Either 10baseT only or 10/100....? > > The Znyx 314 is based on Dec 21040 and works fine with 2.1.5R. All the other > cards should work too. Hi Ulf, That wasn't the question :-) I am quite happy with the Znyx 314 I have here, but I am looking for a solution (possibly 100baseT) with two ports. I won't go into the reasoning. I am aware of a number of vendors supplying two- and four-port DEC Tulip based Ethernet solutions, but I have no idea which ones are supported. Comments from Matt Thomas have not always been encouraging, and there is hard coded support in the driver for the Znyx 314 (look for ZX314 in the source). On the other hand: the de driver definitely is a cool driver for a cool bit of inexpensive hardware! (Just so nobody considers this as criticism.) ... JG
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