From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Mar 13 14:05:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA25435 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 13 Mar 1998 14:05:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sparks.net (exim@aug-modem13.ctel.net [208.221.75.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA25365 for ; Fri, 13 Mar 1998 14:04:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from david@sparks.net) Received: from david by sparks.net with smtp (Exim 1.62 #5) id 0yDcSw-0000EV-00; Fri, 13 Mar 1998 16:58:10 -0500 Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 16:58:10 -0500 (EST) From: To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "Best" Fast Ethernet Card In-Reply-To: <19980313141711.30263@mcs.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 13 Mar 1998, Karl Denninger wrote: > On Fri, Mar 13, 1998 at 10:06:50PM +0200, mika ruohotie wrote: > > yaiks, i dont like being over 1200 messages behind on my mailing lists... > > > > > >The SMC cards *ARE* DEC chipsets. > > > The key word in the above is "new". The SMC9432TX uses the SMC83c170 > > > chip, NOT the DEC chip. We have preliminary support for it in the 'tx' > > Well, I got a bunch of INTEL PRO/100+s in..... > > Preliminary results are, well, impressive. > > Autonegotiation (including FDX) actually works. > Its fast. > 100BaseTX/FDX into an Intel 510T switch is even more impressive :-) While we're on the subject of fast ethernet cards, does anyone know of any muli-port fast ethernet cards? My experience with Znyx 348's (dual port) was that they'd "steal" IRQ's from the neighboring PCI slots, interfering with a (for example) WANic (SDL Riscomm sync serial board) board the next slot over. What I'd love to see is a 100+ dash 4 which used a single a single IRQ for all four ports:) Thanks, David Miller ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- It's *amazing* what one can accomplish when one doesn't know what one can't do! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message