[Scottish] Quad ethernet PCI

[Colin Shorts]

Dear MyFavouriteWeegie,

I also noticed that they are 64bit cards... as for jumbo frames - I believe
that only 1Gbit nic's / equipment can handle that. I've done it at home and
it does make a reasonable difference for larger files (testing from ram
drives as my hard drives can't keep up!). I'd love to be corrected on this
point though ;)

let me know how you get on anyway

http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_private/validateUser.do?target=Devices/Ethernet/ETHER_SunQuadFastEther_PCI

looks like it uses cheerio, so assuming that the cards are pci compatible
with PC's you should be good... if it isn't the cheerio driver then it'll be
the happy meal driver and I've seen both in kernel options for a long time.

-C

2008/6/3 Thomas McLean <tam at ineed2.co.uk>:

> Hi Colin,
>
> They look quite good for the money. The only thing I would need to work out
> now is that if they will work alongside ubuntu. I want to also test (this is
> not a biggy) if I
> can pass jumbo frames through it so I can carry out 802.1q tunnelling.
>
> If anyone has this info available I would appreciate it. I'm running in the
> dark here and don't fancy spending money on something that I won't be able
> to use.
>
> I heard you can get Dlink PCI QFE's quite cheaply but they don't do jumbo
> frames, so I want to hold out just incase I can get cards cheap enough that
> will work.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tam.
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 01:18:24PM +0100, Colin Shorts wrote:
> > Hi Tam,
> >
> > There's a seller on ebay who'll combine shipping on these cards at a
> > tenner a pop. Is that cheap enough for you?
> >
> >
> http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Sun-Quad-Fast-Ethernet-PCI-X1034A-501-4366-QFE-P_W0QQitemZ230258272539QQihZ013QQcategoryZ1484QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQcmdZViewItem
> >
> > -Colin
> >
> > Thomas McLean wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I was just wondering if anyone can give me some help. I'm trying to
> bind my cisco switch to my PC with the use of dynamips to emulate a whole
> routing and switching
> > > environment, but I need to use 2 possibly 3 quad eternet PCI adapters.
> I was wondering if anyone has had any Sun PCI QFE's working under the likes
> of ubuntu? I heard you can do this but I am not sure which ones actually
> work and which don't.
> > >
> > > Also if there is other known working PCI QFE's around, preferrably
> cheap I'd like to also know about them as the Sun QFE's go for around
> #15ish.
> > >
> > > Alternatively if anyone has any I am willing to pick up and pay.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Tam.
> > >
> > >
> > >
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