From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Jun 24 19:39:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from web1.nexusinternetsolutions.net (web1.nexusinternetsolutions.net [206.47.131.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8F0E037B405 for ; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 19:39:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 61867 invoked from network); 25 Jun 2002 02:52:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ws1) (24.102.18.54) by web1.nexusinternetsolutions.net with SMTP; 25 Jun 2002 02:52:34 -0000 From: "Dave" To: "Kal Torak" Cc: "FreeBSD ISP" Subject: RE: Good dual port NICs? Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 22:43:18 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <3D17B4F1.7050203@quake.com.au> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I imagine its a matter of quantity like everything else... if it costs $10k to setup, design and manufacturer a card over 100 cards = $100 per card plus componants. over 100,000 cards = $0.01 per card plus cost of componants. Would imagine demand for multiport NIC's isn't as great as simple single ports. or, (and more likely) just a way for them to make more profit since server folk are more likely to spend money on what is perceived to be better product (note Cisco) just thoughts have usedwhat I am assuming is a similar chipset on the Intel server boards (on board nics) with no problem. Have not stacked multiport nic cards on top of it though. cheers, Dave >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Kal Torak >Sent: Monday, June 24, 2002 8:10 PM >To: Gregory Bond >Cc: FreeBSD ISP >Subject: Re: Good dual port NICs? > > >Gregory Bond wrote: >> We had good luck with the Intel dual EtherExpress Pro 100 cards, >even if they >> do cost about 10x a single! This is still on FreeBSD 3.2 (soon, soon to be >> 4.6). >I was thinking about these cards since I currently have all >EtherExpress Pro 100 cards.. But for the cost of the dual port >Intel I can get a 4 port D-Link or something... > >How they justifiy the price when its basicaly two Pro 100's >stuck onto one pcb I dont know.. The manufacturing costs cant >be that much more... > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message