Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 13:45:42 -0400 From: "William A. Maniatty" <maniatty@cs.albany.edu> To: Chris Shenton <chris@shenton.org> Cc: Ben Hockenhull <benh@blues.jpj.net>, questions@freebsd.org, maniatty@cs.albany.edu Subject: Re: Intel 1000BaseT NIC support? Message-ID: <200104251750.NAA12351@taurus.cs.albany.edu> In-Reply-To: Message from Chris Shenton <chris@shenton.org> of "25 Apr 2001 11:15:52 EDT." <87vgntqac7.fsf@thanatos.shenton.org>
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> Ben Hockenhull <benh@blues.jpj.net> writes: > > > Is the Intel Pro/1000T Server adapter supported yet? It's gig over > > copper, and you can get a pair of them for $230.00 via an attractive Intel > > promo. (http://www.intel.com//network/offers/testdrive_adapter.htm) > > Ooo, ahhh... But how to you interconnect machines with these? Just > link two with a cross-over cable? I doubt I can afford a gigabit > switch. > > Expiring minds want to know! My understanding is that the driver writers and Intel have had some difficulties in negotiating access to the manuals for these boards. Given that, my impression is that the support on these boards is not as strong as say the Alteon based or SysKonnect NICs. Recently, several vendors seem to be releasing NICs based on the broadcom chipsets (I'm not sure which particular model) such as the 3COM 3C966-T. I'm not sure what level of suport these will have in FreeBSD. Regards: Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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