rjg@sialis.mn.org (Robert J. Granvin) (09/22/89)
Sitting at work, running Microport Unix on a '286 box, and now needing to install some real networking, makes me wonder about some things... Microport seems to be the only software manufacturer on the planet who will offer TCP/IP networking tools for a '286 machine with an Excelan Ethernet board. However, since the investment being talked about is in excess of $1,000, most of that going to Microport, I would like to find out if anyone has actually done this, and what their results were, especially in the areas of throughput and reliability. Any comments or thoughts greatly appreciated... -- ________Robert J. Granvin________ INTERNET: rjg@sialis.mn.org ____National Computer Systems____ BITNET: rjg%sialis.mn.org@cs.umn.edu __National Information Services__ UUCP: ...amdahl!bungia!sialis!rjg "Insured against Aircraft, including self-propelled missiles and spacecraft."
stevel@hounix.UUCP (Steve Lancaster) (09/27/89)
In article <1857@sialis.mn.org>, rjg@sialis.mn.org (Robert J. Granvin) writes:
+ Sitting at work, running Microport Unix on a '286 box, and now needing
+ to install some real networking, makes me wonder about some things...
+
+ Microport seems to be the only software manufacturer on the planet who
+ will offer TCP/IP networking tools for a '286 machine with an Excelan
+ Ethernet board.
+
+ However, since the investment being talked about is in excess of
+ $1,000, most of that going to Microport, I would like to find out if
+ anyone has actually done this, and what their results were, especially
+ in the areas of throughput and reliability.
+
+ Any comments or thoughts greatly appreciated...
This works just fine. I've been running this at work for several months,
and have had no significant problems with the tcp-ip package. We use it as
a name-time server. It also in its spare time collects statistics from our
Micom data switch.