From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Nov 12 19:15:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ns.itga.com.au (ns.itga.com.au [202.53.40.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3953737B479 for ; Sun, 12 Nov 2000 19:15:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from lightning.itga.com.au (lightning.itga.com.au [192.168.71.20]) by ns.itga.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA65770; Mon, 13 Nov 2000 14:15:06 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from gnb@itga.com.au) Received: from itga.com.au (lightning.itga.com.au [192.168.71.20]) by lightning.itga.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA05511; Mon, 13 Nov 2000 14:15:04 +1100 (EST) Message-Id: <200011130315.OAA05511@lightning.itga.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 From: Gregory Bond To: Boris Samorodov Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Multiport NIC needed In-reply-to: Your message of Fri, 10 Nov 2000 18:49:21 +0300. Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 14:15:03 +1100 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > We need one quad 10/100 NIC (four segments and only one spare > PCI slot :-( ) As far as drivers are concerned, multiport PCI NICs are just like having several of the same singleport cards, only mounted on the same PCB. I.e. if the singleport card is supported, the multiport card will be as well. Note this is (probably) not true with ISA cards! We have used the Intel twin fxp card since 3.2 with no problems. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message