[geeks] Cheap multiport PCI 10/100 ethernet cards?

[Lionel Peterson]

> From: Dan Duncan <dand at pcisys.net>
> Date: 2004/07/31 Sat PM 06:30:12 GMT
> To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
> Subject: Re: [geeks] Cheap multiport PCI 10/100 ethernet cards?
> 
> On Fri, 30 Jul 2004, Bill Bradford wrote:
> > Anybody have recommendations for "as cheap as possible" 10/100baseT
> > multiport Ethernet cards?  I've got a system with a single PCI slot
> > (the mini-PCI I'm building) that may need more than two network
> > interfaces.
> 
> How about using USB?  They're cheap and don't take up any slots.

USB is not *great* for that kind of application, since all devices share one controller - now, of course, USB 2.0 has enough bandwidth to make use of a couple network adapters, but the reall answer may be one of the cappachino PCs (previously linked to in this thread) with the 4 built-in ethernet ports...

Or a case that can accomodate multiple "short" PCI cards, or a couple "long" PCI cards...