From owner-freebsd-chat Tue May 2 10:55:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (mail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C354437BC39 for ; Tue, 2 May 2000 10:55:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Received: from mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (cdillon@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.1]) by mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA92913; Tue, 2 May 2000 12:55:37 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 12:55:36 -0500 (CDT) From: Chris Dillon To: Steve Price Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: N-port NIC Qs In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 2 May 2000, Steve Price wrote: > Here are a couple of really inane questions concerning multi-port > NICs that have been burning holes in what's left of my gray matter. > > The N-port NICs show up as N distinct devices? They just happen > to all use the same PCI slot. What are the downsides of using > one like the dual port Intel card? Does FreeBSD have support for > the Adaptec Quartet four-port card? Here's what an Intel dual-port looks like in one of my servers: chip5: rev 0x03 on pci1.9.0 Probing for devices on PCI bus 2: fxp6: rev 0x05 int a irq 5 on pci2.4.0 fxp6: Ethernet address 00:08:c7:07:b2:95 fxp7: rev 0x05 int a irq 5 on pci2.5.0 fxp7: Ethernet address 00:08:c7:07:b2:96 The card just has its own PCI bridge with two 82558B controllers on the other side. -- Chris Dillon - cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon@inter-linc.net FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet. For Intel x86 and Alpha architectures. ( http://www.freebsd.org ) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message