matthews@uswat.uswest.com (John Matthews) (04/03/90)
Does anyone have any strong recommendations as to what sort of ethernet board I should buy for a 386 laptop network monitor? So far, I've heard about a board that TRW makes that will supposedly buffer up to 1100 small packets in case the host processor can't grab them fast enough. I've heard very good things about the Western Digital WD8003E board. What about the WD8013E board? This is supposedly the 16-bit-bus version. I am bascially looking for a well known board that will drop very few packets. (hopefully none) If you know any good PD ethernet monitoring software, please let me know also. Thanks in advance, John Matthews
nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) (04/11/90)
In article <7014@uswat.UUCP> matthews@uswat.uswest.com (John Matthews) writes:
Does anyone have any strong recommendations as to what sort of
ethernet board I should buy for a 386 laptop network monitor?
Yes, any board with a packet driver. Stay away from the ni5010 and 3c501,
they only have 2K packet buffers.
If you know any good PD ethernet monitoring software, please let me
know also.
Release 6.x of the Clarkson collection of packet drivers will have MIT's PC/IP
programs, including netwatch. This is courtesy of Dan Lanciani (who compiled
it for the packet drivers) and Joe Doupnik (who modified netwatch for the
packet drivers).
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