Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 18:11:45 -0700 From: Scott Michel <scottm@cs.ucla.edu> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Intel PRO/1000 Gigabit Adapter Message-ID: <199808220111.SAA23303@mordred.cs.ucla.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 21 Aug 1998 22:24:06 %2B0200." <Pine.BSF.4.00.9808212217260.24278-100000@korin.warman.org.pl>
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[slightly off topic]
Ewwwwwwwww! Friends never let friends build networks with ATM unless
absolutely necessary and even then ... It'd be like perpetrating an
MS Operating system on someone. If the network can't support mcast
naturally, should we really be using it?
The good news is that ATM is being relegated to the dust heap of
history now that PPP/Packet over Sonet is operational. All we need
now is operational PCI bus cards.
> > FreeBSDs current ATM is about $1000/port for 155Mbit on copper, I don't
> > know the singlemode prices. You can connect two such back-to-back,
> > so you don't need a switch as such.
>
> Single-mode cards are very expensive (the optics), for short distances
> (several hundred meters) use multimode, the fiber is also much cheaper
> then. And yes, you don't need any switches - I use them exactly this way.
> As for the price... Frankly, I don't remember, the company paid for this
> :-), I vaguely remember something like $700 per multimode 155Mbps card.
> And the difference in pricing between single- and multi-mode card was
> something like 3:1.
>
> Andrzej Bialecki
>
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