From owner-freebsd-small Mon Apr 16 11:38: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from a.mx.everquick.net (a.mx.everquick.net [216.89.137.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1FAA37B43C for ; Mon, 16 Apr 2001 11:38:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eddy+public+spam@noc.everquick.net) Received: from localhost (eddy@localhost) by a.mx.everquick.net (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f3GIba825532; Mon, 16 Apr 2001 18:37:36 GMT X-EverQuick-No-Abuse: Report any e-mail abuse to Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 18:37:36 +0000 (GMT) From: "E.B. Dreger" To: Chris Dillon Cc: "Peter C. Wallace" , Soren Kristensen , freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The ultimate board! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 13:22:39 -0500 (CDT) > From: Chris Dillon > > > > Not bad. But what is the cost of some of the better chips such as > > > the DEC/Intel 21143 or even an Intel 8255x at that quantity? > > > > About 3-4 times the 83815... (when you add the PHY to the 21143 or > > use the overpriced Intel chip...) > > Well.... the 83815 looks like the only choice, then. :-) Killing the 21143 would, IMHO, be stupid... we'd probably better plan on it happening. ;-) If the 83815 ends up being a good chip, and Intel does kill the Tulip, then it would be nice to know of alternatives to 3Com. If the NS chip works, I'm all for it... like Chris, I got a bit scared at the "sis" listing in dmesg. Doubts out of the way, I'm very eager to see what Soren makes, and hope that people can get together enough volume. :-) Eddy --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brotsman & Dreger, Inc. EverQuick Internet / EternalCommerce Division Phone: (316) 794-8922 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message