Re: Looking for cheap 4-port NIC card, appreciated for any site

From: David Schwartz (davids_at_webmaster.com)
Date: 08/11/05 

Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 02:38:13 -0700

"GS" <globalswamy@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1122823669.115695.165790@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...

>I am looking for inexpensive 4-port 10/100 NIC card, Can somebody
> suggest me where can I get it?. I enquired in local stores, Intel card
> was selling for few Hundred bucks, looking for cheap one, thanks in
> advance.

    I'm surprised nobody makes a PCI card that's equivalent to what every
cheap DSL/Cable router has. Basically, an Ethernet controller and a five or
six port single-chip 10/100 switch (such as the BCM5325). The switch does
vlan tagging, so you can separate the ports into whatever bridge groups you
need.

    DS

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