From owner-freebsd-current Thu Oct 2 16:21:31 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA00687 for current-outgoing; Thu, 2 Oct 1997 16:21:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.uniserve.com (dns1-van.uniserve.com [204.244.163.48]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id QAA00678 for ; Thu, 2 Oct 1997 16:21:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shell.uniserve.com [204.244.210.252] by mail.uniserve.com with smtp (Exim 1.70 #1) id 0xGuYY-00007q-00; Thu, 2 Oct 1997 16:21:18 -0700 Date: Thu, 2 Oct 1997 16:21:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom To: Matt Thomas cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Which PCI Ethernet card is best for FreeBSD-current? In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19971002185741.0305e1c4@ranier.altavista-software.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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