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Date:      Wed, 03 Jan 2001 13:25:12 -0500
From:      Dennis <dennis@etinc.com>
To:        James Wyatt <jwyatt@rwsystems.net>, Adam Kujawski <adamkuj@gatordog.com>
Cc:        Mike <mike@mikesweb.com>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 2 cisco's and a fbsd box running bgp
Message-ID:  <5.0.0.25.0.20010103132325.0218d560@mail.etinc.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10101030858050.42073-100000@bsdie.rwsystems. net>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.31.0101030252100.35414-100000@gatordog.com>

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At 09:59 AM 01/03/2001, James Wyatt wrote:
>On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Adam Kujawski wrote:
> > On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Mike wrote:
> > > Who makes quad ethernet cards, and where can you find them?
> > DLink has a four-port PCI NIC for under $200 (~$175). It uses the DEC
> > 21x4x chipset.
>
>You only get partial credit for the test until you can tell us where you
>find them. I've heard about these and looked a bit, but haven't found
>them. If you could kindly provide a URL, someone is going to sell some of
>them pretty quickly. Thank you *very* much in advance - Jy@

These work nicely, but dont expect to get the same throughput on these that 
you get on your 7000 series. Go with a 64bit bus for serious multi-ethernet 
bandwidth. The dlinks are fine but dont expect to get 800Mb/s on a single 
32-bit pci bus unless you dont have much else going on.

dennis

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