Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 23:03:33 +0300 From: Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg> To: Bsdguru@aol.com Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sysKonnect dual gig adapter Message-ID: <20010608230333.F54030@ringworld.oblivion.bg> In-Reply-To: <43.16651c62.285287cb@aol.com>; from Bsdguru@aol.com on Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 03:55:55PM -0400 References: <43.16651c62.285287cb@aol.com>
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On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 03:55:55PM -0400, Bsdguru@aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 06/08/2001 1:28:22 PM Eastern Daylight Time, > brooks@one-eyed-alien.net writes: > > > > 1) Can this be used as a 2 port gigabit NIC? > > > 2) Does this NIC have hardware failover (that is, when power is cut the > 2 > > > ports will be physically tied together. I dont know of any PC plug in > that > > > > > does this, but its a neat feature. > > > > As the other respondent said, it's a 2-port NIC. If you want failover, > > you may want to check out Bill Paul's Fast EtherChannel module at: > > http://people.freebsd.org/~wpaul/FEC/ > > I specifically said "physical" failover. I guess no-one understands what that > means? If it was a feature of the card, there would be no driver support > required. But thanks for the info. I have no idea whether this card-feature-no-driver statement is correct in this particular case, but it is definitely not correct in general: if it is a feature of the card, and especially if it is an advanced feature of the card, you need driver support to enable it. G'luck, Peter -- .siht ekil ti gnidaer eb d'uoy ,werbeH ni erew ecnetnes siht fI To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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