godbey@srg.uucp (Nick Godbey 301-266-4525 Home 301-268-8538) (03/09/91)
Does anyone know if you can buy FDDI network boards for AT and EISA buss machines yet? If will tcp/ip which comes standard with SUNs and SYSV machines work with them? We would like to change our ethernet running tcp/ip over to FDDI and get the 100 mb transfer rates I hear about. thanks nick -- bomb Rule Psix genetic El Salvador Ft. Bragg plutonium Uzi Nazi CIA FBI Noriega Treasury Rule Psix terrorist KGB
merike@alw.nih.gov (Merike Kaeo) (03/09/91)
Don't have specifics, but have seen info regarding FDDI boards for AT and EISA computers from the following companies: Codenoll Technology (914) 965-6300 SimpleNet Systems (714) 529-8850 Summit Microsystems (408) 730-4996 also some companies in Europe: ONELAN Ltd. (U.K) 44-734-4048 Schneider&Koch (Germany (West)) (721)7920 If you end up getting any, I'd be interested in hearing about your applications. Good Luck. Merike Kaeo
my@falcon.nsc.com (Michael Yip) (03/09/91)
> From: godbey@srg.uucp (Nick Godbey 301-266-4525 Home 301-268-8538) > Subject: FDDI availability > Organization: SRG, Arinc Research Corp., Annapolis, MD > > Does anyone know if you can buy FDDI network boards for AT and EISA buss > machines yet? If will tcp/ip which comes standard with SUNs and SYSV > machines work with them? > We would like to change our ethernet running tcp/ip over to FDDI and > get the 100 mb transfer rates I hear about. NPI makes both AT and EISA boards for FDDI. I know that they provide both Novell and PC-NFS drivers. The phone number is (408) 954-8030. I used the AT version but didn't try the EISA board. The performance is OK and I think that the bottle neck is AT and the AT bus. It comes with a node processor on the board. -- Mike
brian@ca.excelan.com (Brian Meek) (03/09/91)
The News Manager) Nntp-Posting-Host: ca Reply-To: brian@ca.novell.com (Brian Meek) Organization: Novell, Inc. - San Jose, California References: <1991Mar08.161121.24600@srg.uucp> <1054@nih-csl.nih.gov> Date: Sat, 9 Mar 1991 00:08:51 GMT In article <1054@nih-csl.nih.gov> merike@alw.nih.gov (Merike Kaeo) writes: >Don't have specifics, but have seen info regarding FDDI boards for AT and >EISA computers from the following companies: > [...] >Schneider&Koch (Germany (West)) (721)7920 > Schneider & Koch now has an office in Palo Alto, CA - 415-322-FDDI brian ____________________________________________________________________________ Brian Meek Novell, Inc. - 2180 Fortune Dr. San Jose, CA 95131 Internet Mail: brian@novell.COM Phone: (408) 473-8375
vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver) (03/10/91)
In article <1991Mar9.015811.26302@berlioz.nsc.com>, my@falcon.nsc.com (Michael Yip) writes: > > From: godbey@srg.uucp (Nick Godbey 301-266-4525 Home 301-268-8538) > > ... We would like to change our ethernet running tcp/ip over to FDDI and > > get the 100 mb transfer rates I hear about. > > NPI makes both AT and EISA boards for FDDI. I know that they > provide both Novell and PC-NFS drivers. The phone number is > (408) 954-8030. I used the AT version but didn't try the EISA > board. The performance is OK ... What number for what sort of traffic corresponds to "OK"? What does ttcp say? Or another TCP/IP benchmark? Or even FTP? (which usually hits bottlenecks other than network stuff) Vernon Schryver, vjs@sgi.com
tom@rsp.UUCP (Thomas Ruf) (03/12/91)
vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver) writes: >What number for what sort of traffic corresponds to "OK"? What does ttcp >say? Or another TCP/IP benchmark? Or even FTP? (which usually hits >bottlenecks other than network stuff) Don't know about NPI's board, but on our FDDI board ttcp (well, our clone that runs under Messy-DOS and uses our API) performs at >1.5MBytes TCP and 2MB UDP. --- Thomas Ruf tom@rsp.de Schneider & Koch GmbH Schneider & Koch, Inc {uunet,mcvax}!unido!rsp!tom Germany Palo Alto
sacg1198@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Scott Cattanach) (03/13/91)
tom@rsp.UUCP (Thomas Ruf) writes: >vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver) writes: >>What number for what sort of traffic corresponds to "OK"? What does ttcp >>say? Or another TCP/IP benchmark? Or even FTP? (which usually hits >>bottlenecks other than network stuff) >Don't know about NPI's board, but on our FDDI board ttcp (well, our clone >that runs under Messy-DOS and uses our API) performs at >1.5MBytes TCP >and 2MB UDP. We got ~30 Mbit/sec over FDDI between two Crays using "nettest" from Cray. -- -catt (Scott Cattanach - catt@uiuc.edu) "I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace, that two become a law firm, and that three or more become a congress!"