Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 19:40:45 +0200 From: Thierry Herbelot <herbelot@cybercable.fr> To: sthaug@nethelp.no Cc: eischen@vigrid.com, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best supported multiport ethernet card? Message-ID: <39199F1D.AF2DC6B6@cybercable.fr> References: <3919821E.30AFA568@vigrid.com> <6308.957973881@verdi.nethelp.no>
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Hello, I'm usng at work a 4-port card by D-LINK (DFE570-TX, IIRC), based on the newer 21143 chipset. It works very fine (even 100Mbps full-duplex on all 4 ports simultaneously). Beware of the on-board PCI bridge chip : this board won't work behind another PCI-PCI bridge. TfH sthaug@nethelp.no wrote: > > > I'd like to go with an Intel fxp based or BP (didn't realize > > Bill Paul was a chip!) based card, since the drivers for > > these cards seem to be better maintained. I also want to > > be able to do full-duplexing. > > The Intel two-port server cards have been workin well for us, both with > 3.4-STABLE and 4.0-STABLE: > > fxp0: <Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100B Ethernet> port 0x3100-0x311f mem 0xfe800000-0xfe8fffff,0xfea00000-0xfea00fff irq 17 at device 4.0 on pci1 > fxp0: Ethernet address 00:d0:b7:5f:b7:a8 > fxp1: <Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100B Ethernet> port 0x3120-0x313f mem 0xfe900000-0xfe9fffff,0xfea01000-0xfea01fff irq 18 at device 5.0 on pci1 > fxp1: Ethernet address 00:d0:b7:5f:b7:a9 > > Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message -- Thierry Herbelot ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN /"\ Dir. technique LUCCAS AGAINST HTML MAIL & NEWS \ / tout le cable sur http://www.luccas.org PAS DE HTML DANS X un CV : http://perso.cybercable.fr/herbelot LES COURRIELS / \ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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