From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 30 May 2001 17:41:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 30 May 2001 17:41:09 -0400 Received: from coruscant.franken.de ([193.174.159.226]:28177 "EHLO coruscant.gnumonks.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 30 May 2001 17:40:58 -0400 Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 18:34:16 -0300 From: Harald Welte To: Fabbione Cc: Linux Kernel Subject: Re: [OFF-TOPIC] 4 ports ETH cards Message-ID: <20010530183416.P14293@corellia.laforge.distro.conectiva> In-Reply-To: <3B135549.19CF8965@fabbione.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.17i In-Reply-To: <3B135549.19CF8965@fabbione.net>; from fabbione@fabbione.net on Tue, May 29, 2001 at 09:52:41AM +0200 X-Operating-System: Linux corellia.laforge.distro.conectiva 2.4.3 X-Date: Today is Pungenday, the 2nd day of Confusion in the YOLD 3167 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 > 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. 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 > Thanks a lot > Fabbione -- Live long and prosper - Harald Welte / laforge@gnumonks.org http://www.gnumonks.org/ ============================================================================ GCS/E/IT d- s-: a-- C+++ UL++++$ P+++ L++++$ E--- W- N++ o? K- w--- O- M- V-- PS+ PE-- Y+ PGP++ t++ 5-- !X !R tv-- b+++ DI? !D G+ e* h+ r% y+(*)