From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Jan 10 14:30:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [63.67.141.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74C52153A0 for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2000 14:30:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from winter@jurai.net) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA31850; Mon, 10 Jan 2000 17:28:17 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 17:28:17 -0500 (EST) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: Bill Fumerola Cc: Rowan Crowe , aussie-isp@aussie.net, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: TX pro II motherboard In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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: 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