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Date:      Sat, 10 Oct 1998 09:55:36 -0700
From:      Ulf Zimmermann <ulf@Alameda.net>
To:        Dennis <dennis@etinc.com>, Kevin Van Maren <vanmaren@fast.cs.utah.edu>, didier@omnix.net
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: network board with several 10baseT (fwd)
Message-ID:  <19981010095536.C27093@Alameda.net>
In-Reply-To: <199810101223.MAA10700@etinc.com>; from Dennis on Sat, Oct 10, 1998 at 12:34:44PM -0400
References:  <199810082003.OAA15474@fast.cs.utah.edu> <199810101223.MAA10700@etinc.com>

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On Sat, Oct 10, 1998 at 12:34:44PM -0400, Dennis wrote:
> Can anyone shed some light as to which of these boards below is
> working well in 2.2.7 and v3.0? Im a little wary of using the if_de driver.
> Is anyone using the phobos stuff?

I have use a ZNYX 314 with the de driver under 2.2.x, either with the
included driver or with the de driver downloaded from Matt Thomas (for 2.2.2
I think I used it)

> 
> Dennis
> 
> At 02:03 PM 10/8/98 -0600, Kevin Van Maren wrote:
> >> Is tehre any working network board with several lan interfaces on the same
> >> board
> >
> >There are several.  Phobos (www.phobos.com) makes a 4-port 10/100
> >card that has a "beta" driver available for 2.2.X and 3.0.
> >Send email to Alison_Dodds@phobos.com about this.  It has driver
> >support for NT, Netware, Solaris, Linux, and FreeBSD, Irix, and HPUX.
> >Under some OSes, it supports "trunking", or link aggregation (with
> >the right switch).  FreeBSD trunking support is planned, which is
> >more than anyone can say about the other cards.
> >
> >Adaptec makes a 4-port card (6944/A) that is supported.  Znyx
> >also makes one that *I believe* works -- both those use the DEC
> >21140 chip and the if_de driver.  All three retail for around
> >$695 (actual cost is $500-$550, or a little less for the Phobos card).
> >
> >Intel makes a 2-port card (costs as much as 3 single-port intel cards,
> >at around $250) that *should* work w/o any problems with the if_fxp
> >driver.
> >
> >All these are 10/100TX cards; all the multi-port 10Mbps-only cards
> >have been discontinued.
> >
> >Kevin
> >
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> > 
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-- 
Regards, Ulf.

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