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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[-- Attachment #1 --] 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 > this is a real 2 port nic or that the second port is only a failover port. I > have 2 questions for anyone who has one: > > 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 > ports will be physically tied together. I dont know of any PC plug in that > 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 -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7IQshXY6L6fI4GtQRAlnkAJ93PUyrRMpcVAhWyDy/kqjd84ajRwCgpFp/ 4XXP/b12dOjo00fdt1DHtVU= =+5ud -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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