[rescue] sbus FDDI under Solaris 9

[Robert F. Schaefer]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jonathan C. Patschke" <jp at celestrion.net>
To: "Sun-Rescue Mailing List" <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 23, 2003 3:43 PM
Subject: [rescue] sbus FDDI under Solaris 9


> I'm contemplating the idea of adding a FDDI backbone to my home network
> for the server to share (leaving the workstations on 100Mbit Ethernet).
> Which sbus FDDI adapters (SAS or DAS--doesn't matter, because I'll be
> using a concentrator) are still supported under Solaris 9?

I'm working on a similar project, but I'm reconsidering using a sun (Axil
ss2 clone, really) as the gateway.  Everyone I've talked to about it (both
of them!) and all the usenet posts I've googled say that the sun FDDI boards
are s_l_o_w.  Even if I'm just routing a cable modem onto the backbone,
2-3Mb/s isn't going to cut it.

>
> There are lots of cheap cisco SAS FDDI cards on eBay right now, but I
> can't find any documentation that states they'll work under SunOS 5.9.

There's a DAS board at
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3402452801 at $10 with no
bids and a little over a day left to go.  I'm still debating wether or not I
want to try it.  It'd be an easier choice if NetBSD supported the card!

>
> --
> Jonathan Patschke

Bob