From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Aug 10 7: 0:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from implode.root.com (root.com [209.102.106.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 188A0153D6 for ; Tue, 10 Aug 1999 07:00:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@implode.root.com) Received: from implode.root.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by implode.root.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id GAA15857; Tue, 10 Aug 1999 06:57:57 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199908101357.GAA15857@implode.root.com> To: kwc@world.std.com (Kenneth W Cochran) Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Managed vs unmanaged NICs In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 10 Aug 1999 09:19:27 EDT." <199908101319.AA10469@world.std.com> From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 06:57:57 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >A somewhat more "general" Q: > >Why might/would I want a managed NIC anyway? > >Also, Intel (for example -- I'm sure the other NIC >manufacturers, too) has lines of "desktop" & "server" NICs, both >managed & unmanaged, except the server NICs are all "managed." The only significant difference that I know about in the Pro/100 management adapter is the wake-on-lan capability, although I don't have the updated programming data for the 82559 chip so there could be other improvements. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message