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Date:      Fri, 8 Jun 2001 10:28:04 -0700
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To:        Bsdguru@aol.com
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: sysKonnect dual gig adapter
Message-ID:  <20010608102804.A26295@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
In-Reply-To: <e4.162cb0b4.285262f4@aol.com>; from Bsdguru@aol.com on Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 01:18:44PM -0400
References:  <e4.162cb0b4.285262f4@aol.com>

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On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 01:18:44PM -0400, Bsdguru@aol.com wrote:
> Looking at the description of the sysKonnect dual adapter, its not clear =
if=20
> this is a real 2 port nic or that the second port is only a failover port=
. I=20
> have 2 questions for anyone who has one:
>=20
> 1) Can this be used as a 2 port gigabit NIC?
> 2) Does this NIC have hardware failover (that is, when power is cut the 2=
=20
> ports will be physically tied together. I dont know of any PC plug in tha=
t=20
> does this, but its a neat feature.

As the other respondent said, it's a 2-port NIC.  If you want failover,
you may want to check out Bill Paul's Fast EtherChannel module at:
http://people.freebsd.org/~wpaul/FEC/

-- Brooks

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