From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 25 15:34:47 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA16120 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 25 Apr 1996 15:34:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA16107 for ; Thu, 25 Apr 1996 15:34:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id PAA25592; Thu, 25 Apr 1996 15:28:50 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199604252228.PAA25592@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: FDDI Support To: rjs@asd.banctec.com (Ron Steele) Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 15:28:50 -0700 (MST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Ron Steele" at Apr 25, 96 10:06:27 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > We want to set a FreeBSD system to talk to an HP server over FDDI. > Are there any other FDDI NIC's supported by FreeBSD, other than those > mentioned in the DEC devices mentioned in the handbook? No. No one has written drivers for cards other than DEC. The DEC drivers were written by a DEC employee (hint: strong DEC brand loyalty has resulted). 8-). > Since no one here knows much about FDDI, any pointers or guidelines > for doing this would be appreciated. This configuration is to be used > primarily to test the performace of the HP server application software, > with FreeBSD being used as a data pump. I believe the handbook has a pointer to the author of the DEC driver's benchmark page. This would probably be useful to you. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.