Date: Thu, 2 Oct 1997 16:21:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom <tom@uniserve.com> To: Matt Thomas <matt@3am-software.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Which PCI Ethernet card is best for FreeBSD-current? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971002161025.24987M-100000@shell.uniserve.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19971002185741.0305e1c4@ranier.altavista-software.com>
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On Thu, 2 Oct 1997, Matt Thomas wrote: > At 02:20 PM 10/2/97 -0700, Tom wrote: > > > >On Thu, 2 Oct 1997, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > > >> In message <9023.875816283@verdi.nethelp.no>, sthaug@nethelp.no writes: > >> >> On the other hand, the only quad cards I know of are based > >> >> on the DEC chip; I'll be trying out the Znyx quad card (I think) soon. > >> > > >> >We have the ZNYX 4-port 10 Mbps card, and the SMC 2-port 100 Mbps card > >> >in a FreeBSD machine here. They work very well for us. > >> > >> I have a machine with 4 of the ZNYX boards (16 ports total) doing the > >> "collapsed backbone" thing. Works like a charm, and in difference > >> from a cisco that would cost 10 times as much, you can run tcpdump > >> and trafshow on it :-) > > > > I would have liked to have been able to use a solution like that. > >However, currently ethernet interfaces that do not have carrier/link > >active, still show us UP. I wish that loss of carrier/link would force > >the interface into a DOWN state automatically. I realize this would > >require some driver changes. > > FWIW, the ifmedia already supports this. Depending on if the > link is up, media will have IFM_ALIVE set or clear. But that won't translate into a UP or DOWN state? Somehow gated gets the interface states (via routing socket?). How can I read that state via a user-mode program? I think it would be great to add some indication to ifconfig to indicate that the physical layer is up. > -- > Matt Thomas Internet: matt@3am-software.com > 3am Software Foundry WWW URL: http://www.3am-software.com/bio/matt.html > Nashua, NH Disclaimer: I disavow all knowledge of this message > Tom
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