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Date:      Wed, 27 Nov 1996 15:52:24 -0800 (PST)
From:      Ulf Zimmermann <ulf@Lamb.net>
To:        jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com (Joe Greco)
Cc:        rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com, jc@irbs.com, gclarkii@main.gbdata.com, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: multiport ethernet
Message-ID:  <199611272352.PAA01028@Bitch.Melmac.org>
In-Reply-To: <199611272239.QAA19910@brasil.moneng.mei.com> from Joe Greco at "Nov 27, 96 04:39:15 pm"

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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.

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