grant@ramsey.cs.laurentian.ca ("Grant R. Guenther") (03/31/91)
We have a number of old ('87 ?) Corvus Omninet LAN cards. It is a while since
I've looked at the specs, but as I recall they supported a 1 Mbit CSMA
type LAN on cheap twisted pair wiring. It may not be possible, but
has anyone out there ever tried making a packet driver for these things ?
Performance would not be great, but it should be possible to make them
behave like ethernet cards. I have sufficient technical data (somewhere)
to give this a try, but I don't want to re-invent the wheel - nor do I want
to waste time on something that has already been proven impossible. Does
anyone have any wisdom on this ?
Thanks
Grant Guenther, Math & C.S., Laurentian U., Sudbury, Canada
grant@ramsey.cs.laurentian.cajbvb@FTP.COM ("James B. Van Bokkelen") (04/02/91)
We have a number of old ('87 ?) Corvus Omninet LAN cards. ...
has anyone out there ever tried making a packet driver for these things ?
There is a Class assigned to Omninet (4), but I am not aware of anyone's
ever using it, or even of a formal standard for IP over Omninet. If you
want to do a "fake Ethernet" driver, I can give you a "Type" value in Class 1.
James B. VanBokkelen 26 Princess St., Wakefield, MA 01880
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