root@mccc.uucp (Pete Holsberg) (10/26/89)
I would like to connect a bunch of ATs into an existing Ethernetwork. What
Ethernet cards exist for the AT? What software would be appropriate?
Thanks.
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In article <1989Oct25.171702.6303@mccc.uucp>, root@mccc.uucp (Pete Holsberg) writes: | I would like to connect a bunch of ATs into an existing Ethernetwork. What | Ethernet cards exist for the AT? What software would be appropriate? Excelan, WD, 3-comm. If you have an existing net you *may* want to go for PC-NFS from Sun and use disk storage on a larger machine. -- bill davidsen (davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen) "The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called 'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see that the world is flat!" - anon
madd@world.std.com (jim frost) (10/26/89)
In article <1989Oct25.171702.6303@mccc.uucp> root@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg) writes: |I would like to connect a bunch of ATs into an existing Ethernetwork. What |Ethernet cards exist for the AT? What software would be appropriate? |Thanks. There are a variety of Ethernet cards for AT-class machines, but my favorite is the WD Ethercard Plus. It's cheap (I picked up a mail-order card for $230, although $240-$250 is pretty standard) and performs quite well. As for software, it all depends on what you really want to do. On my machine, I used it to talk between UNIX machines; I ran Interactive's 386/ix and SCO Xenix (the former had better TCP/IP support, BTW). If you want this capability under MS-DOS, try FTP Software's PC/TCP package. It is an excellent package at a fair price. This will give you many of the interactive utilities (such as telnet and ftp) and eats very little memory for the functionality. If you want NFS client support under MS-DOS, Sun Microsystems' PC-NFS works pretty well. The last time I used it it ate up about 200k of memory, though. It also comes with several networking utilities for logging into UNIX machines. I don't believe there is NFS server support for MS-DOS machines but you should ask Sun about that. If you want a PC LAN, I can't give any information. Good luck, jim frost software tool & die madd@std.com