Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 23:36:45 -0500 (CDT) From: Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us> To: "John W. DeBoskey" <jwd@unx.sas.com> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Intel PRO/1000 Gigabit Adapter Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980820230205.16870C-100000@duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us> In-Reply-To: <199808202030.AA26024@mozart>
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On Thu, 20 Aug 1998, John W. DeBoskey wrote: > Hi, > > Has anyone done any work with the Intel PRO/1000 Gigabit > network adapter? > > It id's as Vendor: 0x8086 > Device: 0x1000 > > If so, I'd like to help. If not, any pointers are greatly > appreciated. > *drool*... Just out of curiosity, what do these things cost? And can you get them with singlemode fiber interfaces? It is currently going to cost me about $10k for the conversion equipment to connect all of our buildings at 100Mbit (would need 10 100BTX -> singlemode converters. I have 5 remote buildings), and if I could just go directly between two of these cards (in FreeBSD boxes of course) with singlemode fiber I think I'd be in heaven. With hefty enough processors in the boxes on both ends, i could probably route a good chunk of that bandwith. More than likely not all of it though (mostly because of the PCI bus, I imagine). However I slice it, it would still be better than 100Mbit. I doubt I could get my work (K12 school district) to help pay for the development of a driver for this, but maybe if we bought a couple I could loan them out for a while to someone who would like to write a driver. :-) -- Chris Dillon - cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon@inter-linc.net /* FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet. For Intel x86 and compatibles (SPARC and Alpha under development) (http://www.freebsd.org) */ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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