From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 16 09:31:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA00619 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 16 Jan 1998 09:31:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA00577; Fri, 16 Jan 1998 09:30:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ambrisko@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA29218; Fri, 16 Jan 1998 09:29:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from UNKNOWN(), claiming to be "crab.whistle.com" via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpd029215; Fri Jan 16 09:29:19 1998 Received: (from ambrisko@localhost) by crab.whistle.com (8.8.8/8.6.12) id JAA29958; Fri, 16 Jan 1998 09:27:27 -0800 (PST) From: Doug Ambrisko Message-Id: <199801161727.JAA29958@crab.whistle.com> Subject: Re: BOCA-16 io boxes In-Reply-To: from Chris Parry at "Jan 15, 98 07:40:13 am" To: laotzu@juniper.net (Chris Parry) Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 09:27:26 -0800 (PST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL29 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Chris Parry writes: | > What about Stallion? The drivers are in the tree. | > | > Regards, | > | > -- | > John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@netbsd.org; jb@freebsd.org | > CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137 | > | | Problem with stallion is that (at least from their web page) they don't | sell anything greater than 8 port boxes, and we have many more machines | I'd like to service from one FreeBSD term server instead of two. Checkout the Comtrol stuff (www.comtrol.com). We had serious trouble with the quality of the BOCA product. The first one worked fine and then the second one was a bad as were the 3 replacements. The RocketPort stuff has an ISA or PCI card that connects to a box for the 16 ports. We bought the ISA version with the rackmount interface box. I like it a lot since it has activity LEDs for each port. Nice for making sure stuff is happening on the right port. Drivers for FreeBSD are on the web site (or FTP) and I think they are getting rolled into FreeBSD. However for 2.2.5 I think I had patch the kernel with the web site drivers. It also goes up to 230K. Doug A.