Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 02:34:11 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Rick Hamell" <hamellr@heorot.1nova.com>, "Jaymes Xihler" <XxAlhazredxX@gmx.net> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: 100baseVG Message-ID: <001401c09d84$2927ec20$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102211348500.16941-100000@heorot.1nova.com>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Rick Hamell > Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 1:53 PM > To: Jaymes Xihler > Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: 100baseVG > > > > > ive read through the supported hardware documents and have found nothing > > about 100baseVG. I find it hard to believe that there isn't > any freebsd drivers > > out there for any 100VG nics. is this true? > > 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! :-) 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. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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