pja@ralph.Lafayette.LA.US (Pete Alleman) (04/11/90)
I'm looking for an Ethernet board for an IBM-PC compatible running Interactive 386/ix. Which is the best board for high performance (with Unix driver availabe)? My only experience is with the WD 8003E. I would assume that there are better cards. Is anyone running Western Digital's 16 bit Ethernet card? Interactive does not have a driver for this board, but Western Digital has a driver on their bbs. Anyone tried it? I've been trying to get a WD 8003S Starlan card working with my employers network. It drops most of the packets. The thruput is so low that a 300 baud serial line is faster. All the other equipment on the network is from Hewlett Packard. Is there a known problem with mixing Western Digital and Hewlett Packard?
john@touch.touch.com (John Weald) (04/12/90)
In article <1850@ralph.Lafayette.LA.US> pja@ralph.Lafayette.LA.US (Pete Alleman) writes: >Is anyone running Western Digital's 16 bit Ethernet card? >Interactive does not have a driver for this board, but Western >Digital has a driver on their bbs. Anyone tried it? > We use here. We used to have problems with the driver/card locking up under heavy load, but we are now running version 1.11 of the driver which has fixed the problem. If you get the Host Based TCP/IP package from ISC the WD driver comes bundled with it, although its an old version of the driver (1.3???). -- John Weald, Touch Communications, Campbell, CA uunet!touch!jweald jweald@touch.com