On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 03:55:55PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In a message dated 06/08/2001 1:28:22 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> > > 1) Can this be used as a 2 port gigabit NIC?
> > > 2) Does this NIC have hardware failover (that is, when power is cut the
> 2
> > > ports will be physically tied together. I dont know of any PC plug in
> that
> >
> > > does this, but its a neat feature.
> >
> > As the other respondent said, it's a 2-port NIC. If you want failover,
> > you may want to check out Bill Paul's Fast EtherChannel module at:
> > http://people.freebsd.org/~wpaul/FEC/
>
> I specifically said "physical" failover. I guess no-one understands what that
> means? If it was a feature of the card, there would be no driver support
> required. But thanks for the info.
I have no idea whether this card-feature-no-driver statement is correct
in this particular case, but it is definitely not correct in general:
if it is a feature of the card, and especially if it is an advanced
feature of the card, you need driver support to enable it.
G'luck,
Peter
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