oattes@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu (Lee Oattes) (12/17/87)
I am interested in knowing whether any one out there has had experience in connecting more than two ethernet boards to a micro-vax (Q-bus) running Ultrix 2.0. The application is to use such micro-vaxen as gateways between many ether(sub)nets (ie. more than two!). As it is now, we can only use each micro-vax as the gateway between two ether networks and it would definitely be nice to have more capability to handle more ether networks without having to purchase more micro vaxes! The standard deqna boards have switches for only two csr addresses, though the device driver will allow more than two. Is there any trick to get around this? It seems a little silly to allow only two deqna boards (?). An alternative would be to install another type of ethernet board with its own driver. Does any one know of any such products? We have considered the Interlan NI2010 board, but Interlan only supports device drivers for the multibus. Has anyone developed an Ultrix device driver for the Q-bus for this board? Any suggestions would be welcome. -- Lee Oattes, University of Toronto Computing Services, CTS. UUCP - {ihnp4!decwrl!utai!, uunet!utai!, allegra!utai! } utgpu!oattes BITNET - oattes@utorgpu.bitnet INTERNET - oattes@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu