From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 23 2:34:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.169.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0260137B401 for ; Fri, 23 Feb 2001 02:34:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from tedm.placo.com (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.168.154]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f1NAYC726082; Fri, 23 Feb 2001 02:34:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "Rick Hamell" , "Jaymes Xihler" Cc: Subject: RE: 100baseVG Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 02:34:11 -0800 Message-ID: <001401c09d84$2927ec20$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 In-Reply-To: Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Rick Hamell > Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 1:53 PM > To: Jaymes Xihler > Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: 100baseVG > > > > > ive read through the supported hardware documents and have found nothing > > about 100baseVG. I find it hard to believe that there isn't > any freebsd drivers > > out there for any 100VG nics. is this true? > > The technology was one of those dead-end ones. As far as I could > tell only HP ever really sold it. From what I've heard - VG technology was > only on the market for about 5 months... most everything out there now is > used stock people are dumping. > Oh, boy, you know how to stir up trouble, don't you! :-) AnyLan was developed by both HP and AT&T, AT&T did the ASIC. The truth is that AnyLan was technically superior to 100BaseT, but it required all 4 pairs to accomplish this. That is really what killed it - there were too many places that pair-split back then. Another big problem with it was that the NIC's that HP made that were AnyLan have a serious hardware bug - they would make the machine crash if they were configured into PIO mode. You had to configure them into shared memory mode. But, AnyLan lasted quite a bit longer than 5 months. HP was making hubs for it for several years, and a number of big organizations got into it. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message