Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 16:39:15 -0600 (CST) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> To: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes) Cc: jc@irbs.com, gclarkii@main.gbdata.com, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: multiport ethernet Message-ID: <199611272239.QAA19910@brasil.moneng.mei.com> In-Reply-To: <199611272111.NAA08481@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at Nov 27, 96 01:11:09 pm
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> > Quoting Gary Clark II (gclarkii@main.gbdata.com): > > > Hello, > > > > > > Has one used the Cogent Quartet lately? I need to produce a low > > > cost ethernet router here and this thing looks like it should give > > > me the most bang for the buck. > > > > > > > SMC has a dual port 10/100 card, SMC8434, that can be had for > > $230US. If you don't need high port density this one may be a > > better deal. Don't know if it works with the de driver. > > WARNING!!! The SMC8434 requieres a motherboard that routes both > PCI INT A and B to the slot, very few if any PCI 2.x compliant > boards do this. Nothing from ASUS can run this card, infact about > the only thing I have found that can run this card is old PCI 1.x > boards with jumpers to manually route the interrupts. When I was looking around the SMC pages, it appeared to me that the SMC8434 was the 10baseT only variant, and there was a 10/100 variant (SMC9332 maybe?). Point being: don't go out and buy an 8434 unless you verify the feature set. ;-) Just a handy tip. Related: Are there any good dual port DEC21x4x based cards currently supported by FreeBSD? Either 10baseT only or 10/100....? ... JG
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