Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 21:10:44 +0200 From: Thierry Herbelot <herbelot@cybercable.fr> To: Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@whistle.com> Cc: Essenz Consulting <john@essenz.com>, Andriy Korud <akorud@polynet.lviv.ua>, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DLINK-DFE570TX Message-ID: <3981DAB4.5DCCE90B@cybercable.fr> References: <200007281545.IAA57560@whistle.com>
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Doug Ambrisko wrote: > > Essenz Consulting writes: > | Andriy, > | > | The card should work fine under FreeBSD 4.0 since is based on the DEC > | 21143 chip. I havent heard any "fail" stories..... but... > | > | The card retails for under $250, you can probably pick it up for under > | $200 if you found a good deal. Im used to working with Quad cards that > | cost well over $500. How good can a $200 Quad card be? This D-LINK card is > | cheaper than intels Dual port NIC... So I wouldn't be suprised if over > | time these cards turn out to be a litle shotty. > > I have success > 16 cards in different machines. Yes we used to pay the > $500 for Adaptec quad cards or the Zynz. Now we use the D-Link since > they fit in the 1U cases that we have (the Adaptec and others tend > to be full length PCI ... atleast the Dec based ones were). I always > thought $500 was to much and $300 for the Intel was also to much. > Since I could buy Dec based cards for $30 dollars. $30 x 4 = $120 add > some for the bridge and minus the stuff needed for 4 separate cards and > $200 or whatever sounds like what it should be to me. BTW I bought my > first one via onsale for $152. Note that www.shopper.com shows some > listed for $147.99. So I'd try to get them for $150. I've got also some tens of them, (not all under FreeBSD), and they just work (I've got for example a batch of 16 NICs exchanging traffic 24x7 for a test bench) they may not be the fastest boards on earth, but they're a pretty good deal (and it's the only option for 1U or 2U rack-mount machines) ! TfH -- Thierry Herbelot ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN /"\ Dir. technique LUCCAS AGAINST HTML MAIL & NEWS \ / tout le cable sur http://www.luccas.org PAS DE HTML DANS X un CV : http://perso.cybercable.fr/herbelot LES COURRIELS / \ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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