Re: cheap 4-port tulip-based cards available

Karen Shaeffer wrote:

On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 02:06:51PM -0700, Ben Greear wrote:

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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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