From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Apr 16 15:28:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from messenger.cacheflow.com (messenger.cacheflow.com [208.2.250.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09E4515A1C for ; Fri, 16 Apr 1999 15:28:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from krowett@rowett.org) Received: from rowettpc (208.2.250.25) by messenger.cacheflow.com (Worldmail 1.3.167); 16 Apr 1999 15:25:35 -0700 Message-Id: <4.2.0.32.19990416152116.00ac4e90@rowett.org> X-Sender: krowett@rowett.org@pop3.rowett.org X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.32 (Beta) Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 15:25:32 -0700 To: Jim Shankland From: "Kevin J. Rowett" Subject: Re: freebsd used in routers? Cc: isp@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199904162314.QAA24560@biggusdiskus.flyingfox.com> References: <58953.924300394@verdi.nethelp.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 04:14 PM 4/16/99 , you wrote: >The world cries out for a nice, quad-82558 card for < $300. >So far, the world cries out in vain. The architecture of PCI slots and the 82558/9 makes that a difficult proposition. The 82558 has a PCI interface built into it. Putting four on a PCI slot card requires a PCI bridge chip on the slot card. This makes the price target hard to reach. KR To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message