Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site cadtroy.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!wivax!cadmus!cadtroy!schoff From: schoff@cadtroy.UUCP (Martin Lee Schoffstall) Newsgroups: net.micro.mac Subject: Re: Re: MAC compatibles and UNIX Message-ID: <148@cadtroy.UUCP> Date: Wed, 5-Dec-84 21:54:28 EST Article-I.D.: cadtroy.148 Posted: Wed Dec 5 21:54:28 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 7-Dec-84 05:59:07 EST References: <142@cadtroy.UUCP> <258@umd5.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: CADMUS [Troy Office], Troy NY Lines: 32 > What good is an ethernet with no software to use it?? That's why all of > the UN*X machines on campus here run 4.2BSD with TCP/IP networking rather > than Sys V. I wouldn't consider a box like that in a University environment > unless it had a *real* ability to do high-speed networking to the rest of > the computers here on campus, and that means 4.2BSD right now. > > Other than that, I sounds great; I'd love to have something like that on my > desk. > Sorry. There is software with the ethernet: 1. How do you think we support the diskless node? 2. There is a fully transparent distributed file system which runs across this ethernet which uses IP as its network layer, it also does ARP, and it is benchmarked at 1.5Mbits now, I believe tunable to 2.5Mbits. 3. TCP/IP for those of you into that, though I wouldn't consider that very high speed if you have been following some of the benchmark data submitted lately. (Excelan's 186 board with their rev 3.1 software does 500kbits) There are a number of people working on tcp/ip for SysV. Excelan has a Unibus board for the VAX. TWG has some software for the VAX. And then there is always ATT's which someday may get released. marty {wivax,seismo,bbncca}!cadmus!schoff schoff@cadmusv.ARPA