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@ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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