From owner-freebsd-net Thu Apr 29 16:48:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from xylan.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB7A615155 for ; Thu, 29 Apr 1999 16:48:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com by xylan.com (8.8.7/SMI-SVR4 (xylan-mgw 2.2 [OUT])) id QAA24955; Thu, 29 Apr 1999 16:45:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from omni.xylan.com by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id QAA04570; Thu, 29 Apr 1999 16:45:08 -0700 Received: from softweyr.com (dyn5.utah.xylan.com) by omni.xylan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1 (xylan engr [SPOOL])) id AA08232; Thu, 29 Apr 99 16:44:06 PDT Message-Id: <37289996.97CB07C9@softweyr.com> Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 11:40:38 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en Mime-Version: 1.0 To: "Matthew N. Dodd" Cc: Lorenzo Cavassa , freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Gigabit ethernet support? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Matthew N. Dodd" wrote: > > On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, Lorenzo Cavassa wrote: > > i need some advices about an ( eventually ) gigabit ethernet support in > > FreeBSD 3.x-RELEASE or 3.x-CURRENT: NICs, drivers and so on ( also > > case-studies and/or performance tests ). > > You've got some choice at this point though 1 option is probably a little > unattractive. > > Packet Engines GNIC/GNICII devices. > - Single source (PacketEngines; http://www.packetengines.com/) > - no driver in any FreeBSD source tree. > - 2.2 drivers at ftp://ftp.scl.ameslab.gov/pub/drivers/ > - Webpage at http://www.scl.ameslab.gov/Projects/Gigabit/ I'll be providing a supported 3.x driver for the PE cards as soon as I can get my hands on some, and get my head wrapped around GE driver code. It turns out Packet Engines is now a part of my company. Plus, I need some for GigE testing here at work. Now that we're all one big happy family I should be able to transfer a few over here in the next month or so. They won't make it in time for 3.2, but I hope to have something working for 3.3. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message