Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 17:28:17 -0500 (EST) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> To: Bill Fumerola <billf@chc-chimes.com> Cc: Rowan Crowe <rowan@sensation.net.au>, aussie-isp@aussie.net, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: TX pro II motherboard Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001101727300.911-100000@sasami.jurai.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10001092207480.9382-100000@jade.chc-chimes.com>
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On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Bill Fumerola wrote: > On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Rowan Crowe wrote: > > I have some vague plans to build a low profile server, using a > > (reasonably) standard motherboard which includes everything needed on it. > > Along with a low profile power supply I hope to fit this into a 1 or 2RU > > rack mount case. > > I bought a telenet (www.tesys.com, I think) 1U machine. They were at > FreeBSDcon and I got to check one of them out there. Cool stuff, haven't > had any problems. > > However the guy at the booth said the onboard ethernet was Intel > EtherExpress (which was funny, because David Greenman was sitting right > across from them and they had no idea who he was.) and when it came it was a: > > rl0: <RealTek 8139 10/100BaseTX> irq 11 at device 9.0 on pci0. > > This is bad, if you read if_rl.c, you'll see why. Looks like their low-end 1U box uses the RealTek; the others seem to use the i82558 (EtherExpress). -- | Matthew N. Dodd | '78 Datsun 280Z | '75 Volvo 164E | FreeBSD/NetBSD | | winter@jurai.net | 2 x '84 Volvo 245DL | ix86,sparc,pmax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | This Space For Rent | ISO8802.5 4ever | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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