From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Apr 14 16:57:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from xylan.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5735A14DB4 for ; Wed, 14 Apr 1999 16:57:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com by xylan.com (8.8.7/SMI-SVR4 (xylan-mgw 2.2 [OUT])) id QAA11506; Wed, 14 Apr 1999 16:54:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from utah.XYLAN.COM by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id QAA09722; Wed, 14 Apr 1999 16:54:10 -0700 Received: from softweyr.com by utah.XYLAN.COM (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (xylan utah [SPOOL])) id RAA11182; Wed, 14 Apr 1999 17:54:06 -0600 Message-ID: <37152A9E.5230480C@softweyr.com> Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 17:54:06 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: alk@pobox.com Cc: wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: if_ex.c driver and multicast References: <19990413222022.B14913@keltia.freenix.fr> <371421C3.B1553B2@softweyr.com> <199904141727.NAA09373@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <14100.53656.953140.550591@avalon.east> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Anthony Kimball wrote: > > [redirecting the thread to "hardware":] > > Is there anyplace where one can still get tulip-based cards? D-LINK and Bay Networks, maybe. Most of the tulip manufacturers have moved on to the PNIC card, which is a mostly compatible chip from Lite-On, and the Winbond W89C840F. These are supported in 3.1 by the pn and wb drivers, both written by Bill Paul. The PNIC supports the Tulip-style "hash perfect" mode, while the Winbond chip only supports a 64-bit hash filter for multicast. Looks like the PNIC is the winner here. Bill mentions the LinkSys 10/100 board by name in the driver, so you may want to look for that one. www.shopper.com shows them as low as $22, search for "linksys etherfast pci". We just ordered 20 of them here, I'm told. ;^) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message