Date: Thu, 4 Jan 1996 15:18:13 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Tao <taob@io.org> To: tim@sssun.spb.su Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.de>, FreeBSD Hackers <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: What choice of 100 mbps Ethernet boards? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960104151051.212o-100000@cabal.io.org> In-Reply-To: <WBzN2xmCWE@sssun.spb.su>
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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"
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