From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Mar 13 21:46:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA16507 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 13 Mar 1998 21:46:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA16474 for ; Fri, 13 Mar 1998 21:46:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ambrisko@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA15034 for ; Fri, 13 Mar 1998 16:07:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from UNKNOWN(), claiming to be "crab.whistle.com" via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpd015026; Fri Mar 13 16:07:44 1998 Received: (from ambrisko@localhost) by crab.whistle.com (8.8.8/8.6.12) id QAA24857 for hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 13 Mar 1998 16:05:18 -0800 (PST) From: Doug Ambrisko Message-Id: <199803140005.QAA24857@crab.whistle.com> Subject: Re: "Best" Fast Ethernet Card In-Reply-To: from "david@sparks.net" at "Mar 13, 98 04:58:10 pm" To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 16:05:18 -0800 (PST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL29 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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