HANK@TAUNIVM.BITNET (Hank Nussbacher) (07/17/89)
People have asked and I have postponed it, but I now have a couple of hours on the horizon so here goes: I have decided to invest 3 weeks to update the scorecard that I last circulated a year ago. Please do not send updates yet. Just send me your ideas for what needs to be added (or deleted) to the scorecard - new functions, new Ethernet cards, etc. I will accept comments for revision until July 23. On the 23rd or 24th I will come out with a new table and will request people to then send me their updates for the scrorecard. The new scorecard will be posted on August 3rd as revision #7. Please send me now your comments for additions. Please reply directly to me since I am not subscribed to your list. Thanks, Hank The Pc/Ip Scorecard revision 6: 07/28/88 --------------------- This scorecard will be like a PC Magazine analysis of of hard disks or printers. But I need help in filling in the boxes. So, here is what the scorecard looks like. Please send me your replies and I will integrate all answers and comments and publish the finalized scorecard in the weeks to come. This first table is called "Must Have". Vendor TFTP SMTP VT- 3270 FTP max cost 100 Clnt FTP ($) -------------+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+---- Beame | Yes| No | Yes| No | Yes| 75k| | Cornell | No| No | No | Yes| No | | 25|site CMU | Yes| No | No | No | No | | 0| Excelan 3.3 | No | No | Yes| No | Yes| 88k| 250|cpu FTP 2.02 | Yes| Yes| Yes| Yes| Yes|114k| 400|cpu FUSION 3.2 | Yes| Yes| Yes| No | Yes| 85k| 300| IBM V1.1 | Yes| Yes| No | Yes| Yes| 90k| 200|cpu KA9Q | No | Yes| No | No | Yes| 74k| 0| MIT | Yes| No | No | No | No | | 50|site NCSA V2.2 | No | No | Yes| No | Yes| | 0| Stanford 3.0 | No | Yes| Yes| No | Yes| | 100|site SUN PC-NFS | No |Xtra| Yes| No | Yes|167k| 395|cpu UB | | No | No | No | Yes| | 495|cpu WIN/TCP 3.2 | Yes| Yes| Yes| No | Yes|200k| 395|cpu Notes: 1) All versions must support ARP, ICMP and UDP 2) max FTP is for the fastest FTP to a PC (*not* from) in Kbytes/sec. The sending machine can be any machine. The origin and destination of the FTP must be disk or ramdisk. NUL is not a valid destination. The following table lists the most popular Ethernet cards available and whether the Pc/Ip implementation works with the stated card. Vendor 3com Excelan Inter UB WD 3Com UB NIC 3com MICOM 3C501 EXOS205 NI5010 2273A 8003 3C523 PS/2 3C503 NI5210 -----------+-----+--------+------+-----+-----+-----+------+------+------+ Beame | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No Cornell | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No CMU | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No Excelan | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No FTP | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes FUSION | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | | Yes IBM | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No KA9Q | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | | Yes MIT | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | | NCSA | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes Stanford | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | | Yes | Sun | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes UB | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | | Wollongong | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | No This table is called the "Nice to Have" table. The functions listed here are not mandatory but are useful in a Tcp/Ip environment: domn time fing whoi NFS gate srce Net- ping SLIP POP Vendor name srvr way code BIOS srvr 1001 -----------+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+ Beame | Yes| Yes| Yes| No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | | Cornell | No| No| No| No | No | No | No | No | Yes| No | No | | CMU | Yes| Yes| Yes| No | No | No | Yes| No | Yes| Yes| No | | Excelan | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes| No | No | No | | FTP | Yes| Yes| Yes| Yes| No | No |Xtra|Xtra| Yes| Yes| No | | FUSION | No | Yes| Yes| Yes| No | No | Yes| No | Yes| No | No | | IBM | Yes| Yes| Yes| Yes| No | Yes| Yes| No | Yes| No | Yes| | KA9Q | No | No | No | No | No | Yes| Yes| No | Yes| Yes| No | | MIT | Yes| Yes| Yes| Yes| No | No | Yes| No | Yes| No | No | | NCSA | Yes| No | No | No | No | Yes| Yes| | Yes| No | No | | Stanford | No | Yes| Yes| Yes| No | No | No | | Yes| No | Yes| | Sun | Yes| No | No | No | Yes| No |Xtra| No | Yes| Yes|Xtra| | UB | Yes| No | | | No | Yes| No | Yes| Yes| No | | | Wollongong | No | No | No | No | No | Yes| No | No | Yes| No | No | | Notes: 1) POP refers to RFC937 2) gateway refers to IP forwarding capability FTP Software is OEMed to BICC Data Networks, Fibronics, Proteon, cisco, Spider Systems, MICOM-Interlan, Scope, Univation and Western Digital.
msd@trwind.UUCP (Marc S. Dye ) (08/03/89)
Might I add the suggestion that the data regarding performance list a Norton number for the PC processor (host-side for 'smart' implementations). Also, a footnote indicating the configuration of the PC/IP host used and that of the peer it was talking to. ASCII vs. BINARY mode FTP transfer data might also be nice. There are some drastic performance differences between these in many implementations. Bi-directionality is also a possible performance issue. If you expect anything but the best value for either direction, that should noted. Finally, I should like to point out that there are some implementations around which take much license with the performance statistics their FTP client interfaces report. The numbers should really report the total time it takes the data to actually sink to the destination medium (usu. RAMdisk for these sorts of tests); data thrown over the wall to TCP shouldn't count. A good way to ameliorate this effect is to require a LARGE file transfer (> a few Megs). ++msd -- msd@TRW.Com -- Marc S. Dye (ayuda Company) 1393 Stonemeadow Ct.; Camarillo, CA; 93010; USA; (805)987-0433