SUMMARY: Sun's Ethernet Adapter

From: Douglas L. Acker (dla@se05.wg2.waii.com)
Date: Thu Feb 11 1993 - 20:54:55 CST


In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 10 Feb 93 13:40:39 CST."
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I got confused on my path .... Ethernet is 10Mbits per second ... which is
about 1200KB/s .... since ethernet runs at most 50% at acceptable performance,
500KB/s is pretty good.

I got the 500KB/s number from Legato .... the application in question is
Networker.

exudnw@exu.ericsson.se (Dave Williams) reports:

 Interphase is "rumored" to be coming out with an sbus version of its NC400/600
product
that does the entire TCP/IP (including NFS/UDP) protocol stack on board.
this would certainly speed things up a bit. Call Interphase at
(214)919-9000 for more info.

Original Message:

>| We have a SUN MP-670 SBUS Ethernet Adapter .... we have been told the maximu
>m
>| bandwidth is 500KB/s through it .... and the numbers we are seeing seem to
>| agree to that number.
>|
>| Does anyone know of the fastest Ethernet Adapter we can get from a SUN MP-67
>0
>| SBUS?
>|
>| On a side note: Why does Sun have a 500KB/s interface to a 10MB/s network?
>|

Many thanks too:
cfoley@arsenic.cray.com (Chuck Foley)
dan@bellcore.com (Daniel Strick)
jaa101@deakin.anu.edu.au (James Ashton
Brian Bartholomew <bb@math.ufl.edu>
ups!kalli!kevin@fourx.Aus.Sun.COM
Eckhard.Rueggeberg@ts.go.dlr.de
stpeters@wren.med.ge.com (Dick St.Peters)
stern@sunne.East.Sun.COM (Hal Stern - NE Area Systems Engineer)
don@mars.dgrc.doc.ca (Donald McLachlan)
jkays@msc.edu
bwalker@auratek.com (Brad Walker)
poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
exudnw@exu.ericsson.se (Dave Williams)
era@ncar.ucar.edu (Ed Arnold)
doug@perry.berkeley.edu (Doug Neuhauser)

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