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- From: tweten@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Dave Tweten)
- Subject: [386bsd] What EISA Ethernet Board?
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- Organization: NAS, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 21:01:59 GMT
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- I'm about to try to put an EISA bus machine onto the ethernet, running
- BSD. I've heard of a variety of ethernet boards reputed to work:
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- Western Digital 8003E, Elite
- Novell NE1000, NE2000
- 3Com 3C503, 3C507
- Isolan ISOLINK
-
- I've also heard that many of them are slow. What I'm looking for is an
- EISA bus board which has a compatability mode that matches 386BSD
- drivers. With (the more efficient) BSD4.4 networking code, an EISA bus
- board should permit my machine to "network" at speeds limited by the
- network hardware or by the distant host. A compatibility mode will
- permit me to use it right away. Does anybody have any suggestions? Be
- polite!
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