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Anyone know of a laptop with dual gigabit ethernet ports?

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I posted on serverfault because it was a bit high-end/sysadmin-ish. – Martin Beckett Jun 7 '10 at 20:20
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Most higher-end laptops will come with a GbE option (or standard) NIC; you can easily expand that with an ExpressCard/CardBus/PCMCIA GbE card: http://www.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Product_Id=277569

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Didn't think pcmcia was fast enough for gig-e? – Martin Beckett Jun 7 '10 at 20:19
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Most laptops come with ExressCard rather than PCMCIA/CardBus these days which has more signalling bandwidth available due to being PCI-E based. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExpressCard#Comparison_to_other_standards for detail. – David Spillett Jul 19 '10 at 20:37
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I've never seen one, at least in the hundreds of home-user level units. Would a PCMCIA unit work?

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PCMCIA is not present in most modern laptops, but ExpressCard is. – whitequark Jun 7 '10 at 19:34
thanks for that. I haven't had to buy any cards since way-back-when. – hometoast Jun 14 '10 at 18:27
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Panasonic recently released the Toughbook 53, which has an option to install a second 10/100 Ethernet port. I have talked to them and to have it installed, it removes the options to have a modem, FireWire, or dual antenna pass-through. It is a semi-rugged laptop model, which is probably overkill for most people, but if factory installed dual ethernet ports are your main concern, this could be a good solution.

--Revised 10-27-11: It turns out that Panasonic will only install the second ethernet port if one orders 50 or more laptops, so it is unavailable for individual purchase. I know this doesn't help you any more, Martin, but it might save time for someone else looking for a rugged laptop with dual Ethernet ports.

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Thanks but needs to be dual 1000Base, even then we discovered that only a few server grade cards actually implement bridging Gig-E correctly – Martin Beckett Jul 1 '11 at 22:57
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