nagler@olsen.uu.ch (01/22/91)
> I'd appreciate a recommendation for an S-Bus ethernet board.
All respondents recommended Sun's board (even the guy from Sun :-) It
costs $400. The following is representative of the answers I received:
From: jmoore@Solbourne.COM (Jim Moore)
I would guess that all the cards are *exactly* equivalent. If the
manufacturer is using the LSI Logic Sbus DMA chip, then the only thing to
do is to wire it up to a AMD Lance ethernet controller and put it on an
Sbus board. I have not seen any manufacturers claiming to have improved on
this design. So I'd just look at price and warrantee.
Thanks also to:
fpb@ittc.wec.com (Frank P. Bresz)
srm@unify.com (Steve Maraglia)
nn@Eng.Sun.COM (Neal Nuckolls)