Re: Multiport NICs - VLAN and Polling Support?

From: Matthew D. Fuller (fullermd_at_over-yonder.net)
Date: 10/13/05

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To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>

    On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 12:21:39PM -0400 I heard the voice of
    Chuck Swiger, and lo! it spake thus:
    >
    > Most of the 4-port NICs I've seen use the DEC Tulip 21x4x,

    And most of 'em are hideously expensive, too. I've wished a couple of
    times for multi-port NIC's that aren't wacky priced.

    And it seems like it finally happened, too. Soekris, in addition to
    their SBC's, has 2- and 4-port NIC's now.

    <http://www.soekris.com/lan16x1.htm>

    I believe they use the sis(4) driver, which in my experience has been
    stable and not hideously low performance. I don't use polling or
    VLAN's, but a glance at the manpages suggests polling seems to support
    sis, and VLAN's will work too (with software assist). And they're
    reasonably priced, too ($63 and $89, for 2- and 4-port respectively). 

    -- 
Matthew Fuller     (MF4839)   |  fullermd@over-yonder.net
Systems/Network Administrator |  http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/
           On the Internet, nobody can hear you scream.
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