From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun Jun 30 08:59:13 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA23157 for hardware-outgoing; Sun, 30 Jun 1996 08:59:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from charlotte.spiders.com (charlotte.spiders.com [199.224.7.188]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA23150; Sun, 30 Jun 1996 08:59:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from gwh@localhost) by charlotte.spiders.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id MAA03596; Sun, 30 Jun 1996 12:02:01 -0400 Message-Id: <199606301602.MAA03596@charlotte.spiders.com> From: gwh@spiders.com (Gene W Homicki) Date: Sun, 30 Jun 1996 12:02:00 -0400 In-Reply-To: bbecker@flubber.futurecomm.com's message as of Jun 30, 2:53 X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.5 10/14/92) To: bbecker@flubber.futurecomm.com, Gary Palmer Subject: Re: muliport boards - building a PPP dialup server Cc: "Jacob M. Parnas" , Henry Spencer , hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, bsdi-users@bsdi.com Sender: owner-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk +--- | On Sat, 29 Jun 1996, Gary Palmer wrote: | | Figuring the price of cheap ethernet cards to be under $40US, you should | be able (today) to connect 3 machines for something like $200US including | the cost of wire and rj-45 connecters. For a network that small, you can | get away with not having a hub. +--- I just got a "PalmHub" 8 port UTP + 1 BNC for < $100. Combione that with a few "Addtron" NE2000 clones from someplace like DatacommWarehouse for $19/each and you can have a small network for under $200. With FreeBSD I have gotten ~1MBps with the $20 cards, which is close to the max you can get on 10Mb (note B vs b) ethernet. And there are not serial line protocl problems. --Gene -- Gene W. Homicki gwh@spiders.com Objective Consulting, Inc. http://www.spiders.com/ Internet Presence Design voice: +1 914.353.3511