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Date:      Mon, 7 May 2001 14:15:22 -0400 (EDT)
From:      <scanner@jurai.net>
To:        Jeff Neuffer <jneuffer@nscom.com>
Cc:        "'freebsd-isp@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Intel PRO/100 "teaming"
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0105071411470.77931-100000@sasami.jurai.net>
In-Reply-To: <E49699672B23D41186D5009027F6E59E61A994@EXCHANGE>

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On Mon, 7 May 2001, Jeff Neuffer wrote:

> Has anyone or does anyone know if the Intel PRO/100 NICS can be used in
> "teaming mode" under FreeBSD?

I have not read the link below yet, but I can tell from the name ts one of
those "features" Intel swears to god is a trade secret and refuses to let
out doco for.

> Here is a link to explain the features I would like to use.  Actually we
> _need_ these features and our platform of choice is FreeBSD.
> http://www.intel.com/network/products/pro100s_srvr_adapter.htm
> 
> In summary I'm looking for these features under FreeBSD with the Intel NICs,

In order to get these you are going to have to do them in house under an
NDA from the Intel people, or hire a FreeBSD developer to sign an NDA and
write the support for you into the fxp driver. Either way Intel should be
strung up by it's toes for it's gorilla NDA tactics that reduce their
cards to cheap two bit 10/100 in the OS world. I relaly wish they would
give the OS developers the doc's to write code for these features. Ive
tried really hard to maket hat happen but they refuse to budge. So I have
stopped buying and recommending Intel cards to clients, and employers.

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