From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jun 8 12:56: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from imo-r06.mx.aol.com (imo-r06.mx.aol.com [152.163.225.102]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 689D437B401 for ; Fri, 8 Jun 2001 12:56:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Bsdguru@aol.com) Received: from Bsdguru@aol.com by imo-r06.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v30.22.) id n.43.16651c62 (4240) for ; Fri, 8 Jun 2001 15:55:55 -0400 (EDT) From: Bsdguru@aol.com Message-ID: <43.16651c62.285287cb@aol.com> Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 15:55:55 EDT Subject: Re: sysKonnect dual gig adapter To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Windows sub 139 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In a message dated 06/08/2001 1:28:22 PM Eastern Daylight Time, brooks@one-eyed-alien.net writes: > > 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/ I specifically said "physical" failover. I guess no-one understands what that means? If it was a feature of the card, there would be no driver support required. But thanks for the info. Bryan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message