From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun Jun 30 10:18:06 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA28891 for hardware-outgoing; Sun, 30 Jun 1996 10:18:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jparnas.cybercom.net (jparnas.cybercom.net [206.28.135.58]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA28886 for ; Sun, 30 Jun 1996 10:18:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.cybercom.net (localhost.cybercom.net [127.0.0.1]) by jparnas.cybercom.net (8.6.10/8.6.10) with SMTP id NAA11281; Sun, 30 Jun 1996 13:17:12 -0400 Message-Id: <199606301717.NAA11281@jparnas.cybercom.net> X-Authentication-Warning: jparnas.cybercom.net: Host localhost.cybercom.net didn't use HELO protocol To: Michael Smith cc: henry@zoo.toronto.edu, hardware@freebsd.org, bsdi-users@bsdi.com X-External-Networks: yes Subject: Re: muliport boards - building a PPP dialup server In-reply-to: Your message of Sat, 29 Jun 1996 17:14:29 +0930. <199606290744.RAA20801@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Date: Sun, 30 Jun 1996 13:17:09 -0400 From: "Jacob M. Parnas" Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In message <199606290744.RAA20801@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>you write: >Jacob M. Parnas stands accused of saying: > >> Also, why add an ethernet to the home system, when really you >> usually just want a point to point connection from your house to the >> ISP, a route from your home computer to the ISP and a route from the >> ISP to any default request, and don't have any need for a local LAN? > >What's the difference between an ethernet card and a high-speed serial >card other than the name and the shape of the connectors? >(Aside from performance, of course) the cost, I haven't seen a solution based on ethernet for under $1000. The card costs $300-$400 or so. Comparable performance and features. Maybe a missed a $400 complete ethernet solution. If so, please let me know. I'll have an ethernet too, so forget those costs (so I can NFS and backup over the ethernet, and use some Sun software like Centerline C) over X, Jacob > >-- >]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ >]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ >]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ >]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ >]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | Jacob M. Parnas | | IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Ctr. | | Internet: jparnas@jparnas.cybercom.net | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------