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 $40 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. -- :wq Claudio
