From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 10 1: 1:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail-01.cdsnet.net (mail-01.cdsnet.net [206.107.16.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3500714CF0 for ; Tue, 10 Aug 1999 01:01:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mrcpu@internetcds.com) Received: (qmail 22705 invoked from network); 10 Aug 1999 07:34:15 -0000 Received: from schizo.cdsnet.net (204.118.244.32) by mail.cdsnet.net with SMTP; 10 Aug 1999 07:34:15 -0000 Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 00:33:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Jaye Mathisen X-Sender: mrcpu@schizo.cdsnet.net To: Tom Pavel Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Experience with multi-channel ethernet cards In-Reply-To: <0FG8002B9L7W3M@mailbox.slac.stanford.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The 2 port Intel card works fine. I'm using the 4 port Znyx card with the de driver just peachily as well. On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, Tom Pavel wrote: > > I have a project for which I'm going to need to get a lot of ethernet > ports into one machine, and so I thought I'd look into the > availability of dual- or quad-channel ethernet cards. > > A quick Web search turned up the Intel Pro 100 dual port card > (PILA8472) and the SMC EtherPower II dual card (SMC9334). Neither of > these are explicitly listed as supported in FreeBSD 3.2 (and the 3C980 > "server" NIC which is supported turns out not actually to be a > dual-channel card...). > > So, does anyone know if either of these cards work with the existing > fxp/de drivers? If so, what has your experience with them been? Do > they show up as 2 independent network interfaces, or is there > something more subtle? > > Alternately, if anyone has any other ideas along these lines, I'd love > to hear about them. [I don't suppose anyone has a driver for a Sun > QFE card... Would that even work in an Intel PC?] > > > Tom Pavel > > Stanford Linear Accelerator Center > pavel@slac.stanford.edu http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~pavel/ > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message