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Subject: Re: multiport ethernet
To: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes)
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 16:39:15 -0600 (CST)
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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