Xref: utzoo comp.unix.xenix:4073 comp.unix.microport:2166 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!ucbvax!bloom-beacon!spdcc!dyer From: dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix,comp.unix.microport Subject: Re: TCP/IP boards Keywords: Excelan Message-ID: <2209@spdcc.COM> Date: 3 Dec 88 04:18:29 GMT References: <374@intek01.UUCP> <1023@asylum.sf.ca.us> Reply-To: dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer) Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA Lines: 30 In article <1023@asylum.sf.ca.us> romkey@asylum.UUCP (John Romkey) writes: >In article <374@intek01.UUCP> mark@intek01.UUCP (Mark McWiggins) writes: >>What TCP/IP board should I buy for 386 Unix? >You might want to consider a host-based implementation. The only one >out there that I know of is by Streamlined Networks. I used it running >under Bell Technologies UNIX System V and it worked quite well. It had >all the standard BSD stuff. Ditto with John about host-based TCP/IP's usually outperforming the so-called "smart" cards. In addition, a multi-homed host running a host-based TCP/IP can perform routing between the different networks, something which is difficult, if not impossible, to do with multiple smart cards, each of which usually has a self-contained IP implementation which does not know of the others. Though I used the Streamlined Networks package with John on a Bell Tech box and was very happy with it, I fear that their XENIX market will be closing very quickly, because SCO has just announced their own host- based TCP/IP package which will also integrate smoothly with their forthcoming NFS and X11 ports. I believe the TCP and NFS ports are derived from Lachman, X11 from Locus. I don't have any experience with it yet, but as soon as it's available, I'll install it and let the net know what my experience is. ISC's 386/ix has a host-based TCP/IP implementation as well. -- Steve Dyer dyer@harvard.harvard.edu dyer@spdcc.COM aka {harvard,husc6,linus,ima,bbn,m2c,mipseast}!spdcc!dyer