frost@helix.nih.gov (James P. Goltz) (06/01/91)
I was talking with a co-worker today about the future of Unix, the prospect of a port of BSD to the 386, and so on. He remarked that it would be fun to play around with Unix in the office except that we couldn't hook it up to the current network (LANtastic). I naively asked, "Why? Aren't the LANtastic cards Ethernet-compatible?" He replied that although the card-to-card interface was compatible, the card-to-computer interface wasn't, and that drivers for the LANtastic card weren't available as far as he knew. I said that I'd be surprised if someone hadn't written one somewhere. So. Is anyone running a network of Unix boxes off of LANtastic Ethernet cards? (Mail, please; I'll summarize.) -- Spoken: James P. Goltz | "The cats eat the rats, Smart: frost@helix.nih.gov | the rats eat the cats, Not smart: nih-csl!helix!frost | and we get the skins for free!"