[TriLUG] looking for a quad ethernet card

[Greg Brown]

Thanks for the head's-up.  I am indeed looking for one that will give 
me four distinct, routable ethernet ports.

Greg

On Tuesday, July 8, 2003, at 11:59 AM, Lee wrote:

> Greg,
> One thing to watch out for is that some of those multi-port cards are 
> 4 seperate ports (like taking the parts from 4 cards and mounting it 
> on one physical card) thus giving you eth0, eth1, eth2, and eth3 on 
> one card, but others are really just one port (eth0) with an on-board 
> hub/switch. This may or may not matter to you, but it could certainly 
> make a difference.
> -Lee
>
> Greg Brown wrote:
>> I just contacted Stay Online.  They do have a LSI Logic 5232E-TP 
>> Intraserver card (quad port) but they are selling it for $200.00.  
>> I'm not familiar with LSI cards so I can't tell if that price is high 
>> or not.  Sounds a little high.  I'm going to wait and see how a 
>> couple on ebay play out before jumping on that one.
>> Greg
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