Subject: RE: Multiport Ethernet NICs
To: 'John Hayward' <John.C.Hayward@wheaton.edu>
From: Andrew Sporner <andy.sporner@networkengines.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 07/05/2000 09:12:25
Hi,

I can only add that I have the dual version of that card
and I have had no problems with it on both 1.4.1 and 1.4.2.
I have had similar problems on a 3com 3c5x9 card however.

Andy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Hayward [mailto:John.C.Hayward@wheaton.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 8:26 AM
> To: Jason R Thorpe
> Cc: tech-kern@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re: Multiport Ethernet NICs
> 
> 
> We have experienced some problems with a fxp card (dmesg: ... Intel
> EtherExpress Pro 10+/100B Ethernet ...) which I believe is 
> single port.
> The problem is in the area of 100 autoselect/full duplex.
> 
> Under 1.3.3 autoselect seems to work - the 100 light is on 
> (not sure if
> we are running full or half duplex).
> Under 1.4.1 autoselect seems to work at 10baseT but not at 100.
> Under 1.5 autoselect does not seem to work, setting at 100 we can get
>   get half duplex to work but not full duplex.
> 
> Anyone else experiencing similar problems?
> johnh...
> 
> On Tue, 4 Jul 2000, Jason R Thorpe wrote:
> 
> > Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2000 23:38:01 -0700
> > From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
> > To: tech-kern@netbsd.org
> > Subject: Re: Multiport Ethernet NICs
> > 
> > On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 06:45:37AM +0200, Lucio De Re wrote:
> > 
> >  > I'm looking for one or more Ethernet adapters for the 
> i386, ISA or
> >  > PCI, with multiple, isolated interfaces and ports.  I have a few
> >  > Genius combined NIC and hub (five ports, one reversible) adapters
> >  > and I'm saddened to hear that they've been discontinued. 
>  But they
> >  > aren't what I want.  I have a multi-homed host and I would dearly
> >  > like fewer than the four adapters I will need really soon.  Even
> >  > two ports per card would seem a great improvement.
> > 
> > I'm using Intel EtherExpress Pro/100 Dual Server Adapters at work,
> > and they work fine.  They have a PCI-PCI bridge and 2 `fxp' 
> interfaces
> > on them.
> > 
> > cdw.com has them.
> > 
> > -- 
> >         -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
> > 
>