Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 08:37:32 -0800 (PST) From: Rick Hamell <hamellr@heorot.1nova.com> To: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Cc: FreeBSD-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: 100baseVG Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102220836240.19131-100000@heorot.1nova.com> In-Reply-To: <001401c09d84$2927ec20$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>
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> > 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! :-) It's my nature... :) > 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. That's all more information then I got... teach me to rely upon anything from a "technical" sales person... :) Even if they do seem to know what they're talking about... :) Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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