Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 21 May 1998 08:49:55 -0700 (PDT) | From | Joel Jaeggli <> | Subject | Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: usefullness of netbeui |
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Yeah, or adaptec 6944a quartet.
See:
http://www.dbd.com/~whitis/hardware/quartet.html
These things are devilishly expensive, like $800ea, which is going to make them real real expensive on a large number of machines. We have only used them in bsd or linux based routers rather than in our beowulf's.
joelja
> > E.g. www.znyx.com. > > They even have boards with an i960 that makes the board looks like one fault > tolerant 400 Mbps link. I saw them at last CeBIT. I don't know whether they > support Linux. > > If they weren't that expensive (2000 USD?), it would be great for making > hypercube Beowulf machines (each node a 600 MHx AXP and 4 Znyx boards)... > > It's not that difficult to make one PCI board with 4 Ethernet ports. All you > need is a PCI bridge (DEC 21152?) and 4 PCI Ethernet chips (DEC 21143). > > Greetings, > > Geert > > -- > Geert Uytterhoeven Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be > Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP} http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/ > Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu >
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