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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!gatech!newsjunkie.ans.net!newsfeeds.ans.net!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!sgigate.sgi.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news1.digital.com!pa.dec.com!nntpd.lkg.dec.com!usenet From: matt@3am-software.com (Matt Thomas) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.setup Subject: Re: Linux or BSD? Date: 17 Apr 1996 23:14:07 GMT Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Lines: 33 Sender: thomas@netrix.lkg.dec.com (Matt Thomas) Message-ID: <4l3tvv$4o1@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> References: <4jprsf$lo9@classic.eng.octel.com> <4kcofg$55p@onramp.arc.nasa.gov> <4kv8oj$em@hobyah.cc.uq.oz.au> <pmh.829670337@ardbeg.islay.sub.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: netrix.lkg.dec.com X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:3210 comp.os.linux.development.system:21878 comp.os.linux.setup:51371 In article <pmh.829670337@ardbeg.islay.sub.org>, pmh@ardbeg.islay.sub.org (Patrick M. Hausen) writes: >Wrong. Since the day of EISA (at least) there are cards with multiple >ethernet connectors (to be used simultaneously, of course), and with >the advent of PCI and PCI-to-PCI bridges these are even becoming rather >cheap. The Znyx 314 or 344, for example, each feature 4 ports. Supported by FreeBSD and NetBSD. I do have some fixes for them that I haven't (as yet) submitted. >Don't know if they're supported by any free Unix. They are. >Yep, but NE2000 is definitely the last thing you want to have in an NFS >server or even in a busy client. Go for some DEC chipset based card >like the ones by Znyx, or, of course, by DEC ;-) >Since FreeBSD supports them _really_ well for quite a time now, I assume >the other free OSes will do just as well. What he said! :-) >P.S. There is some code concerning PCI2PCI bridges in FreeBSD 2.1R - does > anybody know if multiport ethernet adaptors work? FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE does have some bugs concerning PPBs. They should be fixed in 2.1.0-STABLE. -- Matt Thomas Internet: matt@3am-software.com 3am Software Foundry WWW URL: http://www.3am-software.com/bio/matt.html Westford, MA Disclaimer: I disavow all knowledge of this message