From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 16 06:42:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA24765 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 16 Mar 1998 06:42:40 -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 GAA24745 for ; Mon, 16 Mar 1998 06:42:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from david@sparks.net) Received: from david by sparks.net with smtp (Exim 1.62 #5) id 0yEaxA-000297-00; Mon, 16 Mar 1998 09:33:24 -0500 Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 09:33:24 -0500 (EST) From: To: Curt Sampson 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, Curt Sampson wrote: > 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. That would explain things. I was using the two port cards and pulling my hair out over it. If/when they were assigned the same IRQ as some other board, like an ET card, neither device worked. Very unlike the other message where a user had a de* and ncr* sharing IRQ 9. Thanks for the input, I'll take a look at the adaptec cards:) --- 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