Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 17:52:32 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kern/24647: Supported Gigabit Ethernet Interfaces for Bridging IP traffic Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0101251751580.11383-100000@zeppo.feral.com> In-Reply-To: <200101260150.f0Q1o7Z21310@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Brooks Davis wrote: > The following reply was made to PR kern/24647; it has been noted by GNATS. > > From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> > To: ted.smith@hostcentric.com > Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: kern/24647: Supported Gigabit Ethernet Interfaces for Bridging IP traffic > Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 17:48:08 -0800 > > [This should have been asked on -questions or -net, not submitted as a > PR.] > > On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 05:26:53PM -0800, ted.smith@hostcentric.com wrote: > > I need a list Gigabit Ethernet interfaces which bridging is supported. > > Is Bridging supported on Gigabit Ethernet? If so, which vendors? > > Since Gigabit Ethernet is Ethernet, bridging should just work. > Support was added in May to make bridging generic to Ethernet instead > of interface dependent. You're obviously not going to be able to bridge > at wirespeed, but it should work. > > > I would like to see the Sysconnect and Intel 1000BaseSX cards supported. > > JFYI, even the author of the Intel driver doesn't really recommend them > since he can't get docs to get decent performance out of them. It isn't because of lack of docs. It's because the early wiseman chips can't do PCI MWI cycles. The newer cards *may* be better, if I can get them to @$*!~)$*)@$*( work... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the messagehelp
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