GILLMANN@USC-ISIB@sri-unix (12/11/82)
From: Dick Gillmann <GILLMANN@USC-ISIB> Has anyone tried putting an Apollo node on a 10 MHz Ethernet? I know there is a Multibus card set that implements the Ethernet interface (from Intel). We are considering connecting our Apollo ringnet to an Ethernet via a gateway node, mainly for file transfer. /Dick -------
Mishkin@YALE@sri-unix (12/17/82)
From: Nathaniel Mishkin <Mishkin at YALE>
I have implemented Chaosnet over Ethernet for the Apollo. The low
level hardware driver (ether_$send, ether_$rcv, etc.) was supplied
by Apollo and I believe with SR5.0 is released as a sample user device
driver. There are both 3Com and Interlan versions of the driver.
The upper level, Chaosnet, driver (NCP) runs as a user-state process
and implements MIT's Chaosnet protocol. We have been using this
protocol for a couple of years now on our -20s, VAXes and -11s. The
standard utilities (FTP, mail, TELNET) are implemented on the Apollo.
Chaosnet is transparently available from any node on the Apollo ring
using Apollo's MBX (IPC) facility to communicate with the Chaosnet
NCP process running on the node that actually has the Ethernet
interface.
All this code is available to anyone who wants it. Get in touch with
me for more details (you'd be advised to do it before 1 January as
we'll be off the net for a while).
-- Nat Mishkin
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