From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 23 12:21:11 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B235106566C for ; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:21:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from barney_cordoba@yahoo.com) Received: from web63905.mail.re1.yahoo.com (web63905.mail.re1.yahoo.com [69.147.97.120]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2FD0F8FC2C for ; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:21:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from barney_cordoba@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 87309 invoked by uid 60001); 23 Apr 2009 12:21:10 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.com; s=s1024; t=1240489270; bh=ckrk8xlOci0Pi/hab6xfn7MSHgcNS/AD+ywhyXFwTM0=; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Reply-To:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=0Z/566mXl4Qt3E4vf006F+AGLwBnZrmTxsxnOhmTfCF2s+qruyk6ASvPIZJO3vEAh55SOGt2moKlJLgjmLTCIG7kYn5cEuliSZS7GPfAyrHdxOjf+MwLlo/tkFesAFzkeQ+DdxuFpiegFGpuMF5ZFBmV8iSWsKn6z6I/kHQRkJ4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Reply-To:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=dKyviI6W1bKr0XrNC7wbG6zGKDRTXeAIAJXV1WTwFczgsMLoKxN2M2Fu8ZSJNuaRTsoeXZWCXYtFO73DR3k2/Jis4/0DKbjJw/xM8qLg4yyONGUKqFBaKiJEH/G/iFZ4y4yChS9D2yW0d46xqnUFyIEC3tcuCeFLsp3TBDuXEaU=; Message-ID: <432748.87246.qm@web63905.mail.re1.yahoo.com> X-YMail-OSG: kQhjaK4VM1lRHbRhZDMHFOMjqD_9n29_nZkj3.LVdy_8HprhFvfXqdvycr7YQxF_lpAU3KwkkBbnpEHmXRkEU7xJUGqVrhqjC4MBJ4IXeQFK5qLRmkEeybOPEa7HD2oxdO.T6FN3CHKPovsj6Cn0Dg5DDSQWQSBrJ69dZDfoV_4g9PZDLw4Vet9oRJjso8JnnBsDHcMi8MNrMwfSG.piCvMzK6hTpWS1eUiv.dnjcPOWg0fmk8d1uLx0kknWga27ieI.HDKgV_E335XPlU.hOZpLvVc- Received: from [98.242.223.106] by web63905.mail.re1.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 05:21:10 PDT X-Mailer: YahooMailWebService/0.7.289.1 Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 05:21:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Barney Cordoba To: Peter Jeremy In-Reply-To: <20090423062813.GA8531@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Network Card X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: barney_cordoba@yahoo.com List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:21:11 -0000 --- On Thu, 4/23/09, Peter Jeremy wrote: > From: Peter Jeremy > Subject: Re: Network Card > To: "Barney Cordoba" > Cc: "ovi freebsd" , freebsd-net@freebsd.org > Date: Thursday, April 23, 2009, 2:28 AM > On 2009-Apr-21 14:02:38 -0700, Barney Cordoba > wrote: > >On all of the MBs that I have, the slot NIC appears > before the onboard > >ports in the pciconf -l listing. Its certainly not for > sure. > > As a datapoint to add to the uncertainty, the SunFire V440 > has 4 > motherboard NICs - two come before the PCI slots and two > after (so > adding a PCI-based Cassini nic moves ce2 from the MB to the > plugin). > > Even slot numbering on larger boxes (with multiple physical > PCI buses) > can be non (or counter) intuitive. > > Also note that FreeBSD has also changed its PCI probe order > at least > once in the past (effectively re-numbering devices). > > -- > Peter Jeremy 4 port NICs generally have a bridge chip on it, so they always tend to muck things up. If the nics are PCI-X, you can probably add some trace to the em driver to see what the bus speed is. Onboard NICs are usually 33mhz or 66Mhz (I've never seen on onboard that runs 133Mhz)..however if the add-on card is 33mhz or PCI-E than you won't know. But if the em NIC is running at 133 than its almost definitely (hows that for certainty?) a plug in card. Who would buy a realtek plug in card anyway? Barney