Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 15:12:35 -0700 From: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org> To: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca> Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Canadian dealers for Alteon Gig-E NICs Message-ID: <20001109151234.A33585@panzer.kdm.org> In-Reply-To: <200011092143.eA9Lh3N31248@orthanc.ab.ca>; from lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca on Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 02:43:03PM -0700 References: <20001109135734.A32915@panzer.kdm.org> <200011092143.eA9Lh3N31248@orthanc.ab.ca>
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On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 14:43:03 -0700, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: > >>>>> "Kenneth" == Kenneth D Merry <ken@kdm.org> writes: > > Kenneth> I would suggest getting the Netgear or 3Com boards > Kenneth> instead. They're Alteon OEM boards, and are generally a > Kenneth> fair bit cheaper than the price you'll get from Alteon. > > So I'm finding out. > > Kenneth> So if you want a Alteon board with a cat-5 interface, > Kenneth> you'll probably have to go directly to Alteon. AFAIK, > Kenneth> you can't buy Alteon-branded boards from anyone but > Kenneth> Alteon. You'll have to call them up and talk to a > Kenneth> salesperson. > > I did finally manage to find someone at Alteon who pointed me at a > Canadian reseller. Dynavar in Calgary is saying things like CAN$1200+ > for an Alteon SX card (512K). The 3C985B-SX (1MB), from the same supplier, > is CAN$739. > > Go figure. The pricing is probably designed so that Alteon isn't underselling their OEMs. The solution is to do what they want, and buy from their OEMs. :) Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@kdm.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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