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Date:      Wed, 29 Mar 2000 22:43:31 -0600 (CST)
From:      James Wyatt <jwyatt@rwsystems.net>
To:        Bill Fumerola <billf@chc-chimes.com>
Cc:        Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.ca>, alex@aspenworks.com, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Building 8-port Router
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.10003292241460.49234-100000@bsdie.rwsystems.net>
In-Reply-To: <20000329163853.R23367@jade.chc-chimes.com>

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On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Bill Fumerola wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 04:12:02PM -0500, Mike Tancsa wrote:
> > >Okay I'll bite, who makes a multiport Ethernet adapter that's supported
> > >by FreeBSD? 
> > 
> > I havent used any myself, but some have used the
> > 
> > http://www.dlink.com/products/adapters/dfe570tx/
> > 
> > via the dc driver. Check the archives for people's experience with it.  It
> > uses the dc driver under 4.x
> 
> [hawk-billf] /home/billf > grep -e '^fxp' /var/run/dmesg.boot
> fxp0: <Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100B Ethernet> port 0xece0-0xecff mem 0xfdf00000-0xfdffffff,0xf5fff000-0xf5ffffff irq 11 at device 4.0 on pci2
> fxp0: Ethernet address 00:90:27:2a:65:3e
> fxp1: <Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100B Ethernet> port 0xecc0-0xecdf mem 0xfde00000-0xfdefffff,0xf5ffe000-0xf5ffefff irq 10 at device 5.0 on pci2
> fxp1: Ethernet address 00:90:27:2a:65:3f
> 
> That's an "Intel PRO/100+ Dual Port Server Adapter"

Ack! Don't any of them allow you to share IRQs on the PCI bus? I can
imagine doing 8 ports using 8 IRQs would be, uh, limiting... - Jy@



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