From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Feb 16 09:45:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA25955 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 09:45:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from demon.net (internal.mail.demon.net [193.195.224.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA25920 for ; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 09:44:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from darren@demon.net) Received: from office.demon.net (office.demon.net [193.195.224.1]) by demon.net with SMTP id RAA10711; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 17:46:49 GMT Subject: Re: Q: 4-port ethernet cards for -stable? To: Scot Elliott Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 17:44:44 +0000 (GMT) From: Darren Byrne Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Scot Elliott" at Feb 16, 98 05:13:06 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <887651084.007717.0@office.demon.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Scot Elliott said: > > I can't find these cards anywhere either. Their web-site seems to > specialise in medical stuff - not computer hardware. I can't find any > mention of Zynx and NIC in Altavista either. > > So the question is still how good the Adaptec cards are (because I can > actually just order one of those) - or if there are any resellers of the > Zynx cards (I'm UK based so its a tad more than 40 minutes to get to Zynx's > offices ;-). We've used 4 port Zynx cards here, had alot of problems with them under other BSD's such as OpenBSD 2.1. Simply could not get more than one port working, as soon as I config up a second port the box would reboot. However I came to the conclusion that it was the OpenBSD drivers causing this. We tested OpenBSD 2.2 and they work okay so... I have a FreeBSD stable box here. I slammed 2 (maybe 3) 4 port Zynx cards into it and they worked a dream. I've been interested in finding another multiport 10/100 full duplex solution for a while though and haven't really seen much else around... recommendations welcome. Darren Byrne Senior Network Engineer Think I slipped the net, but I cut myself Demon Internet Limited free. I'm not loosing it, so don't forget me. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message