Re: Multiport NICs - VLAN and Polling Support?

From: Danial Thom (danial_thom_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 10/13/05

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    Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 09:22:09 -0700 (PDT)
To: Drew Linsalata <drew@gothambus.com>, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org

    --- Drew Linsalata <drew@gothambus.com> wrote:

    > Maybe I'm asking for too much here, but does
    > anyone know of a 4 port NIC
    > that supports both VLAN tagging and polling?
    > Looks like only em and nge
    > handle both (in 4.11), so it stands to reason
    > that I'm having a hard time
    > finding this beast. Thought maybe someone had
    > better luck than I've had in
    > this search.
    >
    >
    > Drew Linsalata
    > The Gotham Bus Company, Inc.
    > Dedicated Servers and Colocation
    > Long Island, New York
    > http://www.gothambus.com

    Intel makes a 4 port em card, so what is so hard
    about finding it, as every major distributor
    carries it?

    Why anyone would be so clueless as to use polling
    with an em card is beyond the scope of this
    discussion, but I have to admit it has great
    entertainment value!

    Danial

                    
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