Subject: Re: Znyx multi channel ethernet cards
To: Kevin Van Maren <vanmaren@fast.cs.utah.edu>
From: Kevin M. Lahey <kml@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-i386
Date: 04/07/1997 10:03:42
In message <199704071644.KAA13648@fast.cs.utah.edu>Kevin Van Maren writes
>> There was a discussion about these some time ago, and the consensus
>> was that they `should just work' (which seems reasonable). Has anyone
>> actually tried any of these cards?
>
>There are two problems with these cards, which the newer driver
>should deal with just fine:
>1. There is only one ethernet address for all the interfaces

The quad-port ZX346 I use doesn't seem to have this problem:

Name  Mtu   Network     Address              Ipkts Ierrs    Opkts Oerrs  Coll
de0   1500  link#1      0:c0:95:e0:4:24      58900     0      266     0     0
de1*  1500  link#2      0:c0:95:e0:4:25          0     0        0     0     0
de2*  1500  link#3      0:c0:95:e0:4:26          0     0        0     0     0
de3*  1500  link#4      0:c0:95:e0:4:27          0     0        0     0     0

Will the slightly cheaper Cogent quad-ethernet cards be supported
any time soon?  Or are they already?  Does anyone have experiences
(good or bad) with these?

Thanks,

Kevin Lahey
      ^^^^^  Not usually a distinction I have to make :-)