From owner-freebsd-net Wed Oct 6 12:13:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64B751575D for ; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 12:12:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA56427; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 15:12:00 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 15:12:00 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <199910061912.PAA56427@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Hugh LaMaster Cc: "FreeBSD-Net (FreeBSD.Org)" Subject: Re: Tulip drivers for BSD. In-Reply-To: References: <37EB1C97.64915398@softweyr.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org < said: > Is anyone keeping a current list? Is the Tulip chipset > still in production/widespread use? It is still in production, but the sale of Digital Semiconductor to Intel has cast long shadows over the product. Most vendors could see the writing on the wall and switched to another manufacturer's silicon. (Many of these are similar to the 21143, but have inferior bus interfaces and require their own drivers.) The best chip to buy at this point is probably the Intel 82558. It has an excellent bus interface (better than the 21143's) and a clean and efficient driver in FreeBSD. Unfortunately, it does not have a perfect multicast filter -- but then, I've never seen nor heard of a non-DEC product which did. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message