On 6/5/07, Claudio Jeker  wrote:

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> On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 06:10:08PM -0500, L. V. Lammert wrote:

> > On Tue, 5 Jun 2007, Robert Franklin wrote:

> >

> > > Why not a qfe card from Sun? I've used a quad port Sun PCI card for at

> > > least a few years in both me Sun AXI servers, and currently I have one

> > > installed in a dell 1550 that works just fine. You can find the Sun

> > > quad cards for really cheap off of ebay. I think I picked mine up for

> > > around  USD.

> > >

> > Two problems with that:

> >

> > > qfe is REALLY old

> > > qfe is for Sparc, .. might not work on Intel (like the Dell)

> >

> > Might be worth trying, but don't count on it working.

> >

>

> I think Robert Franklin was talking about quad hme(4) based PCI cards.

> Those cards are Fast-Ethernet only and so a quad em(4) will outperform

> them easily. Even some of the rare quad fxp(4) may be better but I would

> prefer them over the quad sis(4) ones sold by soekris.

What's the problem with the Soekris quad cards? You have me worried,

as I just bought two of them. (I haven't employed them yet.)
Todd