From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Mar 13 14:24:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA28527 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 13 Mar 1998 14:24:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cynic.portal.ca (root@cynic.portal.ca [204.174.36.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA28503 for ; Fri, 13 Mar 1998 14:24:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjs@portal.ca) Received: from localhost ([[UNIX: localhost]]) by cynic.portal.ca (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA08038; Fri, 13 Mar 1998 14:22:32 -0800 (PST) X-Authentication-Warning: cynic.portal.ca: cjs owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 14:22:32 -0800 (PST) From: Curt Sampson To: david@sparks.net cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "Best" Fast Ethernet Card In-Reply-To: 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 david@sparks.net wrote: > While we're on the subject of fast ethernet cards, does anyone know of any > muli-port fast ethernet cards? Adaptec has just released two and four port cards that are based on some sort of DEC chip. I'd bet they're pretty similar to the Znyx ones. > 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:) I seem to recall that the two-port ones were both on the main bus, but the four-port ones had four chips behind a PCI-PCI bridge, which fixed the interrupt problem. cjs Curt Sampson cjs@portal.ca Info at http://www.portal.ca/ Internet Portal Services, Inc. Through infinite mist, software reverberates Vancouver, BC (604) 257-9400 In code possess'd of invisible folly. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message