From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 4 12:20:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA00850 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 4 Jan 1996 12:20:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from cabal.io.org (cabal.io.org [198.133.36.103]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA00822 for ; Thu, 4 Jan 1996 12:20:08 -0800 (PST) Received: (from taob@localhost) by cabal.io.org (8.6.12/8.6.12) id PAA02659; Thu, 4 Jan 1996 15:18:14 -0500 Date: Thu, 4 Jan 1996 15:18:13 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Tao To: tim@sssun.spb.su cc: Greg Lehey , FreeBSD Hackers Subject: Re: What choice of 100 mbps Ethernet boards? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Thu, 4 Jan 1996, Andrew Timonin wrote: > > The one is ised on HP Ethernet HUBs and the other on DEC, and > the worst news for me was that they are incompatible :-( There are two main camps in the Fast Ethernet market: those based on the 100-baseTX standard and those based on the 100VG-AnyLAN standard. The SMC9332 is a 100-baseTX NIC. HP developed VG-AnyLAN (in conjunction with IBM, I think), so it isn't surprising their network hubs can only talk to 100VG-AnyLAN NIC's. We have a 3com LinkSwitch 1000 with 24 10-baseT ports and one 100-baseTX port (with room for a second) and it works just beautifully with the SMC. -- Brian Tao (BT300, taob@io.org) Systems Administrator, Internex Online Inc. "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"