AMillar@cup.portal.com (Alan DI Millar) (03/14/91)
Hi-
I have recently inherited some HP Starlan 10 equipment, with little
documentation. I have 2 of the hubs, and a few of the PC cards. The
hub installation manual says the hubs are compatible with the 10BaseT
drafts, but this is (I think) a year or two old.
Does anyone have more information on the HP Starlan 10 equipment? I'm
interested in knowing if this is the same as the older AT&T Starlan
hardware. I remember reading somewhere that some early 10BaseT equipment
can work with the final standard, if it has the option to disable a
particular feature (link integrity?). If so, how about this stuff?
Also, anyone know of a packet driver for these cards?
I apologize for the vagueness of this posting, but I'll appreciate
any help. Thanks.
- Alan Millarcmilono@netcom.COM (Carlo Milono) (03/15/91)
In article <40106@cup.portal.com> AMillar@cup.portal.com (Alan DI Millar) writes: >Hi- > > I have recently inherited some HP Starlan 10 equipment, with little >documentation. (stuff deleted) > > Does anyone have more information on the HP Starlan 10 equipment? I'm >interested in knowing if this is the same as the older AT&T Starlan >hardware. I remember reading somewhere that some early 10BaseT equipment >can work with the final standard, if it has the option to disable a >particular feature (link integrity?). If so, how about this stuff? >Also, anyone know of a packet driver for these cards? > Thank god for standards. Both H-P, whose Pat Thaler chaired the IEEE, and AT&T waited until the 10BaseT standard was at least stable before putting equipment on the market. Early Synoptics and Cabletron stuff won't work with anything else at the twisted-pair level...if you got some, you can interconnect with the AUI port. Link Integrity was the final draft inclusion, it being the bone of contention. I don't believe that H-P put out anything that wouldn't interoperate with the Draft 9 standard (LI excluded)...and neither did AT&T...so I am confident you can interconnect those two vendor's stuff. If I'm wrong...well, Pat will correct me! -- +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Carlo Milono: cmilono@netcom.apple.com or apple!netcom!cmilono | |"When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, | |that the dunces are all in confederacy against him." - Jonathan Swift | +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+
gt@hprnd.rose.hp.com (Glenn Talbott) (03/20/91)
... >Also, anyone know of a packet driver for these cards? > > I apologize for the vagueness of this posting, but I'll appreciate >any help. Thanks. > >- Alan Millar >---------- The packet driver collection from Clarkson University, version 8.x now includes a driver for the Hewlett-Packard PC LAN Cards 27240A, 27245A, 27250A, 27247A, and (contrary to the statments in changes.doc about Microchannel) the 27241A and 27246A MCA cards. The packet driver is hppclan.com. If you would post the HP Product numbers for the hubs & cards that you have you can probably get more authorative answers about compatibility with IEEE standards. Glenn Talbott R&D Lab Current Product Engineering & Hotsite Management Hewlett-Packard Roseville Networks Division gt@hprnd.rose.hp.com