Subject: Re: good dual-port ethernet
To: Matthias Scheler <tron@zhadum.de>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: current-users
Date: 07/23/2002 11:54:04
On Sat, Jul 20, 2002 at 06:45:54PM +0200, Matthias Scheler wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 20, 2002 at 05:14:40PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > > And the Compaq Dual Port Netelligent 10/100 TX - you have those, too -
> > > in my server never caused trouble, too, although it has two TI chips
> > > behind an Intel PCI bridge.
> > 
> > No, the Dual Port Netelligent I have don't have a PCI bridge on it, just
> > 2 thunderlan devices (I guess one PCI slot can accept 2 PCI devices).
> 
> Mine definitely has a bridge:
> 
> ppb1 at pci0 dev 11 function 0: IBM 82351 PCI-PCI Bridge (rev. 0x01)
> pci2 at ppb1 bus 2

Hum, after checks, mine has it too. I didn't notice it before.
Sorry for the noise on this.

Well, this mean that some PCI/PCI bridge seems better than others :)

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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