ake@umecs.UUCP (]ke Sandgren) (01/29/88)
Hello everybody! We are going to buy an ethernet controller and I would like to know what the preferrable one is. I am considering the following: Dec DEUNA or DELUA 3Com Excelan EXOS 204 Interlan The system in question is a Vax 11/750 with 4.3BSD. The rest of our machines are SUN 3/160's, Vax 11/780 (VMS, DEUNA), a Cyber 805 with CDC-net and Kinetics boxes for our Mac's. Please, send me any pro's, con's and general info about these controllers you have. And send it via mail so that I won't have to look for replys all the time... -- Ake Sandgren, Dep. of Info. Proc., University of Umea, S-90187 Umea, Sweden UUCP: ...!mcvax!enea!umecs!ake Internet: ake@umecs.umu.se BITNET/EARN: ake@seumdc51
ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie) (02/02/88)
BRL had tried the Interlan NI1010A, the Excelan, and the DEUNA controllers. All worked. The Interlan being the best, in our opinion. The DEUNA has been rumored to cause problems in the 750's because it draws too much power from the bus. It seemed to work fine in our 780's. The Excelan should be used in dumb mode (that is EXOS sucks, use the hosted TCP/IP) We made use of that board in that way. If you are stuck writing a driver for the board yourself (i.e., you are not running 4.3), the Interlan board is the easiest to program of the group. I'm very skeptical of the 3Com product. -Ron