From owner-freebsd-isp Mon May 7 11:15:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [64.0.106.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B79737B422 for ; Mon, 7 May 2001 11:15:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scanner@jurai.net) Received: from localhost (scanner@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA78913; Mon, 7 May 2001 14:15:22 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 14:15:22 -0400 (EDT) From: To: Jeff Neuffer Cc: "'freebsd-isp@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Intel PRO/100 "teaming" In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 7 May 2001, Jeff Neuffer wrote: > Has anyone or does anyone know if the Intel PRO/100 NICS can be used in > "teaming mode" under FreeBSD? I have not read the link below yet, but I can tell from the name ts one of those "features" Intel swears to god is a trade secret and refuses to let out doco for. > Here is a link to explain the features I would like to use. Actually we > _need_ these features and our platform of choice is FreeBSD. > http://www.intel.com/network/products/pro100s_srvr_adapter.htm > > In summary I'm looking for these features under FreeBSD with the Intel NICs, In order to get these you are going to have to do them in house under an NDA from the Intel people, or hire a FreeBSD developer to sign an NDA and write the support for you into the fxp driver. Either way Intel should be strung up by it's toes for it's gorilla NDA tactics that reduce their cards to cheap two bit 10/100 in the OS world. I relaly wish they would give the OS developers the doc's to write code for these features. Ive tried really hard to maket hat happen but they refuse to budge. So I have stopped buying and recommending Intel cards to clients, and employers. ============================================================================= -Chris Watson (316) 326-3862 | FreeBSD Consultant, FreeBSD Geek Work: scanner@jurai.net | Open Systems Inc., Wellington, Kansas Home: scanner@deceptively.shady.org | http://open-systems.net ============================================================================= WINDOWS: "Where do you want to go today?" LINUX: "Where do you want to go tomorrow?" BSD: "Are you guys coming or what?" ============================================================================= irc.openprojects.net #FreeBSD -Join the revolution! ICQ: 20016186 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message