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To: "scanner@jurai.net" <scanner@jurai.net>,
	"Jeff Neuffer " <jneuffer@nscom.com>
From: Bill Pechter <pechter@ureach.com>
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Subject: Re: Re: Intel PRO/100 "teaming"
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---- On Mon, 7 May 2001, scanner@jurai.net (scanner@jurai.net)
wrote:

> On Mon, 7 May 2001, Jeff Neuffer wrote:
> 
> > Has anyone or does anyone know if the Intel PRO/100 NICS can
be used
> in
> > "teaming mode" under FreeBSD?
> 
> I have not read the link below yet, but I can tell from the
name ts one
> of
> those "features" Intel swears to god is a trade secret and
refuses to
> let
> out doco for.
> 
> > Here is a link to explain the features I would like to use. 
Actually
> we
> > _need_ these features and our platform of choice is FreeBSD.
> >
http://www.intel.com/network/products/pro100s_srvr_adapter.htm
> > 
> > In summary I'm looking for these features under FreeBSD with
the Intel
> NICs,
> 
> In order to get these you are going to have to do them in
house under an
> NDA from the Intel people, or hire a FreeBSD developer to sign
an NDA
> and
> write the support for you into the fxp driver. Either way
Intel should
> be
> strung up by it's toes for it's gorilla NDA tactics that
reduce their
> cards to cheap two bit 10/100 in the OS world. I relaly wish
they would
> give the OS developers the doc's to write code for these
features. Ive
> tried really hard to maket hat happen but they refuse to
budge. So I
> have
> stopped buying and recommending Intel cards to clients, and
employers.
> 
>
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> 
They do have tar files for Linux support for the non-S
encryption versions.  The IANS support's off their web site.
We use their failover capabilities on Linux...

I suppose that *BSD support could be rigged with a bit of work.
I don't know if their license would allow that...

--Bill

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