From owner-freebsd-scsi Tue Apr 13 13:34:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from aurora.sol.net (aurora.sol.net [206.55.65.76]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C32114C8E for ; Tue, 13 Apr 1999 13:34:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jgreco@aurora.sol.net) Received: (from jgreco@localhost) by aurora.sol.net (8.9.2/8.9.2/SNNS-1.02) id PAA13072; Tue, 13 Apr 1999 15:45:32 -0500 (CDT) From: Joe Greco Message-Id: <199904132045.PAA13072@aurora.sol.net> Subject: Re: Huge SCSI configs In-Reply-To: <88819.924034637@verdi.nethelp.no> from "sthaug@nethelp.no" at "Apr 13, 1999 10:17:17 pm" To: sthaug@nethelp.no Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 15:45:32 -0500 (CDT) Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > I'm just waiting for someone to come up with a driver for the new Fore ATM > > card, the ForeRunnerHE 622. I like the larger packet size I can do with > > ATM. :-) > > On the other hand, with the Alteon based card you can do jumbo frames too, > at a fraction of the cost. (My Netgear GA620 Gigabit Ethernet card bought > from the US ended up at almost exactly one tenth of the price of a HE622 > from the Fore vendor here in Norway. YMMV) My apologies for this non-SCSI discussion, but... This doesn't seem odd. However, 155Mbps ATM is roughly the equal of 100Mbps Ethernet, allows 9180-byte packets, runs over WAN links, and integrates nicely into an existing ATM network. The cost on the server side is important, but it is easy to justify 1x most costs. Getting the benefit on the client side for a reasonable price, well, that's interesting. :-) (Ask Fore for pricing on their UTP 155Mbps ATM cards when purchased along with a workgroup ATM switch...) Not that I'm actually in the market to build a machine with OC-12 speed capability, but if I did, that's why I'd probably consider ATM as a serious choice. Ethernet may win in the long run, just because it is so... commodity. But right now the ATM stuff is out there, works, and switches at the advertised speeds. ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/342-4847 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message