From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jun 16 17:47:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from etinc.com (et-gw.etinc.com [207.252.1.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 872F414D10 for ; Wed, 16 Jun 1999 17:47:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dennis@etinc.com) Received: from dbsys (dbsys.etinc.com [207.252.1.18]) by etinc.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id UAA15480; Wed, 16 Jun 1999 20:47:50 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199906170047.UAA15480@etinc.com> X-Sender: dennis@etinc.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0 Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 19:39:29 -0400 To: Marc Nicholas From: Dennis Subject: Re: DLINK quad ethernet board Cc: hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: References: <199906161913.PAA14256@etinc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 05:06 PM 6/16/99 -0400, you wrote: >At a chipset level (DEC 21143) yes...in the same way a Znyx card would >work. > >It looks like the card also uses a DEC bridge chip too (not unussual on >multi-port Ethernet cards) and FreeBSD will also cope fine with that too. > >HOWEVER...be aware that some BIOSes mess up the initialization of such >beasties (PCI bridging and all). I also notice that DLINK markets this as a "load balancing board" which "appears as a single nic to the system". I assume that their windows driver makes it look like that, but it may have a strange interface. They are apparently a lot cheaper than Zynx boards (with the same technology)....Although I havent really found any of the DLINK dealers that sell them. Dennis > >So, in short, it should work...but I've never tried it :-) > >Out of interest, how much do DLink knock these puppies out of? > > >-marc > >---------------------------------------------------------------- >Marc Nicholas netSTOR Technologies, Inc. http://www.netstor.com >"Fast, Expandable and Affordable Internet Caching Products" >1.877.464.4776 416.979.9000 fax: 416.979.8223 cell: 416.346.9255 > >On Wed, 16 Jun 1999, Dennis wrote: > >> >> Is this board supported? Anyone using them? >> >> Dennis >> >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message >> > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message