From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 13 15:19:22 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id PAA05488 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 13 Nov 1995 15:19:22 -0800 Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id PAA05483 for ; Mon, 13 Nov 1995 15:19:16 -0800 Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id AAA01416; Tue, 14 Nov 1995 00:19:36 +0100 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199511132319.AAA01416@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: multiport ethernet ? To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 14 Nov 1995 00:19:36 +0100 (MET) Cc: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it (Luigi Rizzo), cds@sssup1.sssup.it X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1017 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk I believe some time ago on some of the FreeBSD lists there was a mention to a multiport (two or four) ethernet card. Does anyone have pointers to models, features and prices ? I have to set up some routers and am having difficulties: ISA card cause too much cpu overhead for moving data; VLB slots are in short supply on standard motherboards (max 3, but usually at least one goes with the video/disk); and the same applies to PCI slots (not to mention the fact that the no-name "lnc" boards that I can find come with a buggy soft config software, and I cannot map them at an address different from 0xff80). Thanks Luigi ==================================================================== Luigi Rizzo Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ ====================================================================