Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 19:28:43 -0600 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Bill Paul <wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> Cc: Charles Randall <crandall@matchlogic.com>, dmiller@search.sparks.net, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Gigabit ethernet support? Message-ID: <37BB5DCB.4847C0BE@softweyr.com> References: <199908182243.SAA25589@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu>
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Bill Paul wrote: > > Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, Charles Randall > had to walk into mine and say: > > > Bill Paul has developed a driver for the Alteon Tigon 1 and 2 cards. > > > > http://www.freebsd.org/~wpaul/Alteon/ > > > > FYI, > > Charles > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: David Miller [mailto:dmiller@search.sparks.net] > > Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 1999 1:55 PM > > To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org > > Subject: Gigabit ethernet support? > > > > > > Any supported cards in 3.2.x? The HCL pages don't list any:( > > The ti driver supports several cards, including the Alteon AceNIC, > the 3Com 3c985-SX, the Netgear GA620, the DEC EtherWORKS 1000, the > SGI PCI gigabit ethernet card, the NEC gigabit ethernet card and > possibly some from IBM as well, though I don't know the PCI vendor/device > IDs for those so I can't be sure (if you find them out, you can try > hacking them into the driver). All of these are supported by the same > driver because they're all OEMed from Alteon. We have two of the NetGear GA620's here, and they work quite nicely. I use them for testing throughput via Gig-E on our switches. Mine is running in a lowly PII/233, on a 32-bit x 33 Mhz slot, and can push bits at 320 Mbps. The GA620 will work in any 32 or 64 bit, 33 or 66 Mhz slot. A 64x66 slot would probably speed things up appreciably. They're relatively cheap, too, going for $339 at DataComm Warehouse. I'm still working on those Packet Engine cards, Bill. They're really quite disorganized and difficult to work with up there in Spokane... -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://softweyr.com/ wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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