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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA6501 ; Sun, 10 Jan 93 10:14:44 EST Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!ames!data.nas.nasa.gov!wilbur.nas.nasa.gov!tweten From: tweten@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Dave Tweten) Subject: [386bsd] What EISA Ethernet Board? Sender: news@nas.nasa.gov (News Administrator) Organization: NAS, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 21:01:59 GMT Message-ID: <1993Jan12.210159.14229@nas.nasa.gov> Lines: 20 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: 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! -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dave Tweten tweten@nas.nasa.gov NASA Ames Research Center, M/S 258-5 (415) 604-4416 Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000 FAX: (415) 604-4377