Subject: Where to get? WAS Re: Multiport ethernet board ?
To: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU>
From: Tom T. Thai <tomthai@future.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 01/22/1998 10:21:06
ok where can I get one of these board? The Zy.. thing
On Wed, 21 Jan 1998, Jonathan Stone wrote:
>
> Heh. I'd guess there's no point continuing with 10Mbit/sec chips
> anymore: the price differential is small enough that it's not worth
> the inventory costs.
>
> >for some strange reason, mine all ended up at the same IRQ. I haven't bothered
> >to look at it or decide whether I care)..
>
> This is normal. The four-port chips have an on-board "PCI" bus that
> glues the four chips together behind a PCI-PCI bridge. The PPB itself
> only consumes one IRQ on the host side.
>
> (If memory serves, the two-port cards just glom two PCI chips onto a
> single board, which would explain why they use two IRQs.)
>
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