From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: Karen Shaeffer <shaeffer@neuralscape.com>
Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: cheap 4-port tulip-based cards available
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2002 14:32:10 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DB1CF5A.9080701@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20021019141417.A11659@synapse.neuralscape.com
Karen Shaeffer wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 02:06:51PM -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
>
>>>http://www.softwareandstuff.com/h_comp_inet4.html
>>>
>>>The site says almost nothing about the cards, but on a tip from a
>>>coworker I bought one the last time this site had them for sale, and
>>>have been extremely happy with it. lspci shows:
>>
>>I just got mine, and ordered a bunch more...
>>
>>These are the Phobos p430 NICs. I have extensively benchmarked 2
>>of those NICs that I got as eval copies, and they perform as good
>>as or better than the 570tx, using the standard tulip driver.
>
>
> I'm just curious. What do you do with a bunch of those cards? Do you put
> them in a PC and make a switch out of it?
I make traffic generators out of them (www.candelatech.com)
They are also good for firewalls and routers, as well as more
exotic network devices. Using linux for a switch does not make so
much sense these days when you can buy a 16 port switch for under $100,
but with bridging code it can be done.
Ben
>
> cheers,
> Karen
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Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> <Ben_Greear AT excite.com>
President of Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-19 21:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-15 23:52 cheap 4-port tulip-based cards available Jason Lunz
2002-10-16 4:29 ` Richard Gooch
2002-10-19 21:06 ` Ben Greear
2002-10-19 21:14 ` Karen Shaeffer
2002-10-19 21:27 ` Richard Guy Briggs
2002-10-19 21:28 ` Karen Shaeffer
2002-10-19 22:07 ` Richard Gooch
2002-10-19 21:32 ` Ben Greear [this message]
2002-10-19 21:42 ` Karen Shaeffer
2002-10-19 21:59 ` Ben Greear
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