[ILUG] quad NICs

[Scanlan, Brian (5188)]

Hey,

A quick search on google shows that Linux has support
for Sun's QFE effort on the Sparc platform, as well as
4-port IntraServer (IS) 5232E-TP Tulip card, and prolly
others, what manufacturers make them for intel platforms?

Anyway, yeh, the Sun QFE card is nothing more than
a PCI card with 4 female RJ45's holes in it. Sun also
sell nice trunking software, so you can do failover and 
NIC trunnking into one large pipe. A warning though,
4 NIC's at full throttle will eat up about a 300mhz UltraSPARCII
chip, dunno how that translates into the world of Intel - Unless
you're just doing failover, don't put one of these into a single
CPU system...

The Sun QFE card, iirc, does work without special drivers if you assign
the HME drivers to each of the NICs on the card, but it's not 
supported etc. - I can't imagine it being too hard to work
with Linux, as long as the chipset is supported!

Here's a link about a working Intel card you can buy.
http://www.tux.org/hypermail/linux-eepro100/1999-Sep/0054.html

Brian.

-----Original Message-----
From: Donncha O Caoimh [mailto:donncha.ocaoimh at tradesignals.com]
Sent: 09 November 2000 13:22
To: ILUG
Subject: [ILUG] quad NICs


Can anyone recommend a brand of quad NICs that Linux supports? In
related news, are they simply network cards with 4 ports out the back?

Donncha.

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