From: "Michael H. Warfield" <mhw@wittsend.com>
To: Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org>
Cc: Fabbione <fabbione@fabbione.net>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [OFF-TOPIC] 4 ports ETH cards
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 18:03:44 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010530180344.A5304@alcove.wittsend.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3B135549.19CF8965@fabbione.net> <20010530183416.P14293@corellia.laforge.distro.conectiva>
In-Reply-To: <20010530183416.P14293@corellia.laforge.distro.conectiva>; from laforge@gnumonks.org on Wed, May 30, 2001 at 06:34:16PM -0300
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 06:34:16PM -0300, Harald Welte wrote:
> On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 09:52:41AM +0200, Fabbione wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > sorry for the offtopic msg.
> >
> > Can someone point me to a 4 ports fast/eth card solution for linux?
> D-Link DFE-570 has a reasonable pricing and is well supported by the
> tulip driver
Just got three of these suckers and I'm about to order a bunch
more (happy camper)...
> > I found some cards based on the DEC 21*4* chips but when
> > I asked for more details I got a strange answer from the reseller
> > like that this card is able to work only half-duplex and the chip has
> > only one mac-address for the 4 eth cards (really strange).
> nah. And even if so, you can always change the mac-address using ifconfig.
Each D-Link card has four MAC addresses (sequential). I doubt
other manufactures are any different.
> What the guy most likely wanted to say, is that there is only one EEprom
> containing all mac adresses for the four tulip chips, which I have seen
> on multiple boards
What the guy was doing was having a bad case of optical rectitus.
That would be typical of a "reseller" (AKA Salesman). Most would not
even have a CLUE that the cards were based on the tulip chipset / driver.
Because the D-Link cards were less than half of the nearest
competitor [ < $180 vs > $360 for others and Compac was > $2400! ] I
ordered only three not knowing for sure if they would work. Turned on
the tulip driver and them suckers fired right up. Now I know they work,
stock, right out of the box, and I can order a bunch more for the lab
I'm working with.
> > Thanks a lot
> > Fabbione
>
> --
> Live long and prosper
> - Harald Welte / laforge@gnumonks.org http://www.gnumonks.org/
Mike
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-05-30 22:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-05-29 7:52 Fabbione
2001-05-29 13:05 ` J . A . Magallon
2001-05-29 19:21 ` Dan Hollis
2001-05-30 5:27 ` Fabbione
2001-05-30 21:34 ` Harald Welte
2001-05-30 22:03 ` Michael H. Warfield [this message]
2001-05-30 22:25 ` Jeff Golds
2001-05-31 0:23 ` George Bonser
2001-05-30 22:57 ` Martin Josefsson
2001-05-31 5:21 ` Fabbione
2001-05-31 12:03 ` poptix
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