From owner-freebsd-net Thu Nov 9 14:13: 3 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 9831637B4C5 for ; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 14:12:53 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ken@localhost) by panzer.kdm.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) id PAA33613; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 15:12:35 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from ken) Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 15:12:35 -0700 From: "Kenneth D. Merry" To: Lyndon Nerenberg Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Canadian dealers for Alteon Gig-E NICs Message-ID: <20001109151234.A33585@panzer.kdm.org> References: <20001109135734.A32915@panzer.kdm.org> <200011092143.eA9Lh3N31248@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: <200011092143.eA9Lh3N31248@orthanc.ab.ca>; from lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca on Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 02:43:03PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 14:43:03 -0700, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: > >>>>> "Kenneth" == Kenneth D Merry writes: > > Kenneth> I would suggest getting the Netgear or 3Com boards > Kenneth> instead. They're Alteon OEM boards, and are generally a > Kenneth> fair bit cheaper than the price you'll get from Alteon. > > So I'm finding out. > > Kenneth> So if you want a Alteon board with a cat-5 interface, > Kenneth> you'll probably have to go directly to Alteon. AFAIK, > Kenneth> you can't buy Alteon-branded boards from anyone but > Kenneth> Alteon. You'll have to call them up and talk to a > Kenneth> salesperson. > > I did finally manage to find someone at Alteon who pointed me at a > Canadian reseller. Dynavar in Calgary is saying things like CAN$1200+ > for an Alteon SX card (512K). The 3C985B-SX (1MB), from the same supplier, > is CAN$739. > > Go figure. The pricing is probably designed so that Alteon isn't underselling their OEMs. The solution is to do what they want, and buy from their OEMs. :) Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@kdm.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message