Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 12:55:36 -0500 (CDT) From: Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us> To: Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: N-port NIC Qs Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.20.0005021252040.92225-100000@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.4.21.0005021043420.3634-100000@fly.HiWAAY.net>
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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: <PCI to PCI bridge (vendor=1011 device=0024)> rev 0x03 on pci1.9.0 Probing for devices on PCI bus 2: fxp6: <Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100B Ethernet> rev 0x05 int a irq 5 on pci2.4.0 fxp6: Ethernet address 00:08:c7:07:b2:95 fxp7: <Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100B Ethernet> 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
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