From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Nov 28 11:46:06 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA10327 for isp-outgoing; Thu, 28 Nov 1996 11:46:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from GndRsh.aac.dev.com (GndRsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA10322 for ; Thu, 28 Nov 1996 11:46:03 -0800 (PST) Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by GndRsh.aac.dev.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA10654; Thu, 28 Nov 1996 11:45:35 -0800 (PST) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199611281945.LAA10654@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: multiport ethernet In-Reply-To: from Bradley Dunn at "Nov 27, 96 05:14:43 pm" To: bradley@dunn.org (Bradley Dunn) Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 11:45:35 -0800 (PST) Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL25 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > On Wed, 27 Nov 1996, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > > > 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. > > Ok, help clear some things up for me here. > > The dual port 10/100 PCI card is the SMC9334, right? Not sure, I have not looked at that card, nor does my distibutor catalog list that part number. > > The SMC8434 is the dual port 10Mbps PCI, right? Yes. > > Now which of those two works and which doesn't? I don't know anything about the SMC9334, but the SMC8434 has some very special motherboard requirements, which I can't find anyone's board that has them (or atleast any current production board that has both INT A and INT B routable to a slot). -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation, Inc. Reliable computers for FreeBSD