Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 16:05:18 -0800 (PST) From: Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@whistle.com> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "Best" Fast Ethernet Card Message-ID: <199803140005.QAA24857@crab.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95.980313165415.480B-100000@sparks.net> from "david@sparks.net" at "Mar 13, 98 04:58:10 pm"
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david@sparks.net writes: | 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:) Well, we've been using 3 Adaptec Quad 10/100 in a system and before that we have 2 systems with 3 Znyx Quad cards. The only problem I've had is with BIOS's that can't deal with mapping all those interrupts with reserved ISA interrupts (ie. without the ISA cards it is fine with the ISA card the BIOS does even try to boot the machine). The other catch is that ATX motherboards are better since these cards are long and the CPU gets in the way on some AT motherboards. Doug A. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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