Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1998 12:34:44 -0400 From: Dennis <dennis@etinc.com> To: vanmaren@fast.cs.utah.edu (Kevin Van Maren), didier@omnix.net Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: network board with several 10baseT (fwd) Message-ID: <199810101223.MAA10700@etinc.com> In-Reply-To: <199810082003.OAA15474@fast.cs.utah.edu>
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Can anyone shed some light as to which of these boards below is working well in 2.2.7 and v3.0? Im a little wary of using the if_de driver. Is anyone using the phobos stuff? Dennis At 02:03 PM 10/8/98 -0600, Kevin Van Maren wrote: >> Is tehre any working network board with several lan interfaces on the same >> board > >There are several. Phobos (www.phobos.com) makes a 4-port 10/100 >card that has a "beta" driver available for 2.2.X and 3.0. >Send email to Alison_Dodds@phobos.com about this. It has driver >support for NT, Netware, Solaris, Linux, and FreeBSD, Irix, and HPUX. >Under some OSes, it supports "trunking", or link aggregation (with >the right switch). FreeBSD trunking support is planned, which is >more than anyone can say about the other cards. > >Adaptec makes a 4-port card (6944/A) that is supported. Znyx >also makes one that *I believe* works -- both those use the DEC >21140 chip and the if_de driver. All three retail for around >$695 (actual cost is $500-$550, or a little less for the Phobos card). > >Intel makes a 2-port card (costs as much as 3 single-port intel cards, >at around $250) that *should* work w/o any problems with the if_fxp >driver. > >All these are 10/100TX cards; all the multi-port 10Mbps-only cards >have been discontinued. > >Kevin > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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