From owner-freebsd-net Thu Nov 9 12:57:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from panzer.kdm.org (panzer.kdm.org [216.160.178.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A309437B4C5 for ; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 12:57:39 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ken@localhost) by panzer.kdm.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) id NAA32963; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 13:57:34 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from ken) Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 13:57:34 -0700 From: "Kenneth D. Merry" To: Lyndon Nerenberg Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Canadian dealers for Alteon Gig-E NICs Message-ID: <20001109135734.A32915@panzer.kdm.org> References: <200011092003.eA9K35N30738@orthanc.ab.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <200011092003.eA9K35N30738@orthanc.ab.ca>; from lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca on Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 01:03:05PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 13:03:05 -0700, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: > Can any of you point me at a Canadian company that sells > Alteon ACEnic Gigabit Ethernet cards? Thanks. I would suggest getting the Netgear or 3Com boards instead. They're Alteon OEM boards, and are generally a fair bit cheaper than the price you'll get from Alteon. The Netgear GA620 boards have 512K SRAM on board, the 3Com 3c985B has 1MB SRAM on board. Netgear has a copper version out (GA620T), but I don't see a copper version of 3Com's OEM board, which would likely have 1MB SRAM. So if you want a Alteon board with a cat-5 interface, you'll probably have to go directly to Alteon. AFAIK, you can't buy Alteon-branded boards from anyone but Alteon. You'll have to call them up and talk to a salesperson. If you want fiber, a Netgear or 3Com board will do the trick. Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@kdm.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message