[net.lan] Excelan ethernet boards

sasaki@harvard.ARPA (Marty Sasaki) (09/27/84)

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I know that this was asked before, but we weren't interested at the
time, so I ignored the messages.

Anyway, does anyone have any experience with the Excelan ethernet
controller (the one with TCP/IP handled by the board)? We are looking
for any experience (good or bad) in general, and the following in
specific:

      o	How good a job of off-loading the host cpu does the board do?

      o	How much code remains in the host kernel. This is important for
	our 2.9 BSD systems which are already straining the limits of
	the address space.

      o	Does anyone have a device driver for this beast that works under
	VMS.

Thanks in advance.

			Marty Sasaki
			Havard University Science Center
			sasaki@harvard.{arpa,uucp}
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			Marty Sasaki
			Havard University Science Center
			sasaki@harvard.{arpa,uucp}