On 6/16/05, Nick Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a couple similarly marketed, similarly described cards (although, > with a cheap dc(4) chip), and while they are VERY useful, they are not > four-port NICs. What it actually is is a single port NIC with a four > port switch. I'm fairly sure this is the exact same thing. Evidence: > the picture seems to show two moderately small chips, most quad-port > NICs have five chips -- four NICs and a PCI-PCI bridge. COULD it be a > PCI-PCI bridge and a quad-port NIC chip? Perhaps, but I'm not aware of > anyone putting four NICs on one chip.
More evidence - the description claims it uses the RTL8139D and RTL8305SB chipsets. The RTL8139D chipset is obviously the NIC, the RTL8305B chipset is a five port switch: http://www.realtek.com.tw/products/products1-2.aspx?modelid=18 -- ach
