From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Aug 28 0:56: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.HiWAAY.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87ABE14F0D for ; Sat, 28 Aug 1999 00:55:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@airnet.net) Received: from airnet.net (tc14-216-180-35-51.dialup.HiWAAY.net [216.180.35.51] (may be forged)) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.1a/8.9.0) with ESMTP id CAA28813; Sat, 28 Aug 1999 02:52:35 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <37C7952C.44F0BE51@airnet.net> Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 02:52:12 -0500 From: Kris Kirby Organization: Non Illegitemus Carborundum. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.08 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Daniel O'Connor" Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Are the ethernet drivers time dependent? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > On 28-Aug-99 Kris Kirby wrote: > > > RS232? RS485? VERY cheap and the later is at least moderatly resistant to > > > noise > > Noise shouldn't be an issue. It's going to be handling "clean" data. By > > cheap, I mean $5 a pop or so. I've got a few 3C503s that I feel like > > cutting into. I'm going to be bearing the financial end of this project > > of mine, so I'm going to save where I can. :-) > > Well serial ports come free on all new computers ;) You're right, I should have clarifed. I'm looking to break 128K. I don't have any serial ports that I can jumper up to 460 or 230 kbps. Additionally, 256K is a nice round number :-). I'm not looking to invest in new hardware, and I can save on a bit of hardware by letting the NIC worry about the link. The NIC also greatly simplies the system. At worst, I'd need a machine with a 3C503 and a NE2000. And then I'll probably use dummynet for bandwidth limiting over the link so it doesn't get flooded. I'm going to be building at least three of these units, assuming I get the technical issues out of the way. So I'm looking at a cheap (hardware and software) way of getting data in and out of a PC with IP support and such. It just makes sense in my POV to use a NIC. It's capable of 10 Mbps and has most of the circuitry for preparing data for transmission on it. If you will, it's a ready to use data pump. -- Kris Kirby ------------------------------------------- TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message