sbus quad fast ethernet variants

[Doug White]

On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, Joerg Wunsch wrote:

> As mk at capri.pl wrote:
>
> > Does FreeBSD support both variants, any experiences, hints ?
>
> No idea for the SBus version.  For the PCI versions of the QFE,
> FreeBSD really just considers it as quad hme devices, sitting behind a
> PCI-PCI bridge.

Same for sbus.  All the interfaces will come up with the same MAC
address, though, so if they need to be unique you'll have to use the
'ether' option to ifconfig to set one.

I've had some odd problems with multiple hme devices though, as if hme
doesn't handle interrupts shared for multiple interfaces or something.  I
haven't yet come up with a good test, though.

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