Date: Sun, 30 Jun 1996 12:02:00 -0400 From: gwh@spiders.com (Gene W Homicki) To: bbecker@flubber.futurecomm.com, Gary Palmer <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: "Jacob M. Parnas" <jparnas@jparnas.cybercom.net>, Henry Spencer <henry@zoo.toronto.edu>, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, bsdi-users@bsdi.com Subject: Re: muliport boards - building a PPP dialup server Message-ID: <199606301602.MAA03596@charlotte.spiders.com> In-Reply-To: bbecker@flubber.futurecomm.com's message as of Jun 30, 2:53
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+--- | 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
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