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Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1998 12:34:44 -0400
To: vanmaren@fast.cs.utah.edu (Kevin Van Maren), didier@omnix.net
From: Dennis <dennis@etinc.com>
Subject: Re:  network board with several 10baseT (fwd)
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Can anyone shed some light as to which of these boards below is
working well in 2.2.7 and v3.0? Im a little wary of using the if_de driver.
Is anyone using the phobos stuff?

Dennis

At 02:03 PM 10/8/98 -0600, Kevin Van Maren wrote:
>> Is tehre any working network board with several lan interfaces on the same
>> board
>
>There are several.  Phobos (www.phobos.com) makes a 4-port 10/100
>card that has a "beta" driver available for 2.2.X and 3.0.
>Send email to Alison_Dodds@phobos.com about this.  It has driver
>support for NT, Netware, Solaris, Linux, and FreeBSD, Irix, and HPUX.
>Under some OSes, it supports "trunking", or link aggregation (with
>the right switch).  FreeBSD trunking support is planned, which is
>more than anyone can say about the other cards.
>
>Adaptec makes a 4-port card (6944/A) that is supported.  Znyx
>also makes one that *I believe* works -- both those use the DEC
>21140 chip and the if_de driver.  All three retail for around
>$695 (actual cost is $500-$550, or a little less for the Phobos card).
>
>Intel makes a 2-port card (costs as much as 3 single-port intel cards,
>at around $250) that *should* work w/o any problems with the if_fxp
>driver.
>
>All these are 10/100TX cards; all the multi-port 10Mbps-only cards
>have been discontinued.
>
>Kevin
>
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