Date: Fri, 05 Jul 1996 17:13:26 -0400 From: "Jacob M. Parnas" <jparnas@jparnas.cybercom.net> To: bbecker@flubber.futurecomm.com Cc: Gary Palmer <gpalmer@freebsd.org>, Henry Spencer <henry@zoo.toronto.edu>, hardware@freebsd.org, bsdi-users@bsdi.com Subject: Re: muliport boards - building a PPP dialup server Message-ID: <199607052113.RAA03152@jparnas.cybercom.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of Sun, 30 Jun 1996 02:53:22 EDT. <Pine.LNX.3.93.960630023324.929A-100000@flubber.futurecomm.com>
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In message <Pine.LNX.3.93.960630023324.929A-100000@flubber.futurecomm.com>you write:
>On Sat, 29 Jun 1996, Gary Palmer wrote:
>
>> > Why connect at high speeds with a UART: money. Most ethernet solutions
>> > cost well over $1000 not counting the ethernet hardware which may not be at
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>> > home. (card, tranceiver or hub, cables, etc). I've seen a PC Card that
>> > costs $199-$319 depending on who you are, and it does everything with a UART
>> > on top (the software driver for BSDI will be $95. So, how does $400 sound to
>>
>> I'm sorry? I cabled and equipped a LAN at home for less than $1000,
>> for 3 machines (2 PC's, and one `other') (admittedly 10b2, not 10bT
>> which is what I would go for today).
>
>Figuring the price of cheap ethernet cards to be under $40US, you should
>be able (today) to connect 3 machines for something like $200US including
>the cost of wire and rj-45 connecters. For a network that small, you can
>get away with not having a hub.
>
>You get away with no hub by swapping the RX and TX pairs on the cables
>connecting one box to another. Of course one of the boxes has to have two
>cards, and it also has to be able to route packets between the other two
>boxes. (Since this is 'bsdi-users', i'm presuming that a BSDI box would
>be filling that role).
>
>But the price of hubs has dropped dramatically. An Accton 8-port 10bt hub
>is something like $125 if i'm not mistaken. A little black thing about
>the size of the lizard book. If you prefer white, you can get the same
>hub from 3Com,
>
>Bill
How much is the ethernet <-> ethernet connection. The ones I've seen are
around $1000, not considering other equipment.
Jacob
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