From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jan 22 3:53:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from shark.harmonic.co.il (jupiter.harmonic.co.il [192.116.140.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A433637B400 for ; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 03:53:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (roman@localhost) by shark.harmonic.co.il (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA18954; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 13:52:55 +0200 Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 13:52:55 +0200 (IST) From: Roman Shterenzon To: "Paul A. Howes" Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New Intel NICs... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, Paul A. Howes wrote: > All- > > I know FreeBSD has great support for the Intel EtherExpress Pro 10 and 100B > series cards. I was just checking Intel's web site, and they seem to have > phased out the 100B in favor of a 100S, which incorporates harware-based > encryption, and a "new-and-improved" version of the chip, dubbed the > "82550". Are our drivers still compatible with the new card? Also, can our > drivers take advantage of the encryption? We were supposed to do a hardware project based on this chip. However, we didn't receive the docs in time, and it was dropped. The bottom line is that part of the specification is under NDA or something similar as far as I remember. If this is the case, then adding support for it can be tricky. ..ehmm... perhaps I'm wrong (hopefully). --Roman Shterenzon, UNIX System Administrator and Consultant [ Xpert UNIX Systems Ltd., Herzlia, Israel. Tel: +972-9-9522361 ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message