From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Nov 27 15:52:32 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA23319 for isp-outgoing; Wed, 27 Nov 1996 15:52:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from DNS.Lamb.net (root@DNS.Lamb.net [206.169.44.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA23313 for ; Wed, 27 Nov 1996 15:52:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from Bitch.Melmac.org (ulf@Bitch.Melmac.org [207.90.181.42]) by DNS.Lamb.net (8.8.3/8.8.2) with ESMTP id PAA09118; Wed, 27 Nov 1996 15:53:40 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ulf@localhost) by Bitch.Melmac.org (8.8.3/8.7.6) id PAA01028; Wed, 27 Nov 1996 15:52:24 -0800 (PST) From: Ulf Zimmermann Message-Id: <199611272352.PAA01028@Bitch.Melmac.org> Subject: Re: multiport ethernet To: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com (Joe Greco) Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 15:52:24 -0800 (PST) Cc: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com, jc@irbs.com, gclarkii@main.gbdata.com, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199611272239.QAA19910@brasil.moneng.mei.com> from Joe Greco at "Nov 27, 96 04:39:15 pm" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Like I wrote earlier, look at the Znyx pages too. They have all kind of 2 and 4 port cards. Only 10mbit and 10/100. All cards also with full duplex. Or with switching. Etc. > > > 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....? The Znyx 314 is based on Dec 21040 and works fine with 2.1.5R. All the other cards should work too. > > ... JG > Ulf. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ulf Zimmermann, 1525 Pacific Ave., Alameda, CA-94501, #: 510-769-2936 Lamb Art Internet Services | http://www.Lamb.net/ | http://www.Alameda.net