[tulip] Future of tulip, good quad-cards?

Dan Hollis goemon@anime.net
Wed Jun 5 15:56:02 2002


On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, gemorga2 wrote:
> Quad PHYs used to exist (not sure if they do now -- check level 
> one's/broadcom's websites?)

Quad and Octal PHYs exist, they are used in switches.

> Incidently; SMC, Intel, etc make dual port network adapters.  I guess there 
> just isn't much demand for quad port adapters.  Especially with gigabit over 
> copper available.

That's a good point actually. Grab a GBE nic, a GBE->100bt switch, and run 
vlans.

-Dan
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