Bill Paul wrote:
>
> Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, Charles Randall
> had to walk into mine and say:
>
> > Bill Paul has developed a driver for the Alteon Tigon 1 and 2 cards.
> >
> > http://www.freebsd.org/~wpaul/Alteon/
> >
> > FYI,
> > Charles
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: David Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 1999 1:55 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Gigabit ethernet support?
> >
> >
> > Any supported cards in 3.2.x? The HCL pages don't list any:(
>
> The ti driver supports several cards, including the Alteon AceNIC,
> the 3Com 3c985-SX, the Netgear GA620, the DEC EtherWORKS 1000, the
> SGI PCI gigabit ethernet card, the NEC gigabit ethernet card and
> possibly some from IBM as well, though I don't know the PCI vendor/device
> IDs for those so I can't be sure (if you find them out, you can try
> hacking them into the driver). All of these are supported by the same
> driver because they're all OEMed from Alteon.
We have two of the NetGear GA620's here, and they work quite nicely. I use
them for testing throughput via Gig-E on our switches. Mine is running in
a lowly PII/233, on a 32-bit x 33 Mhz slot, and can push bits at 320 Mbps.
The GA620 will work in any 32 or 64 bit, 33 or 66 Mhz slot. A 64x66 slot
would probably speed things up appreciably.
They're relatively cheap, too, going for $339 at DataComm Warehouse.
I'm still working on those Packet Engine cards, Bill. They're really quite
disorganized and difficult to work with up there in Spokane...
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