Re: SBUS FDDI Cards for TCP/IP & SunOS

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From: Randall Atkinson
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1992 01:18

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In article <1992Sep30.183832.3906@meaddata.com> rfrink@meaddata.com (Rick Frink) writes:
>    Does anybody know of a vendor who currently (or plans to) offers an SBUS
>  FDDI card (SAS) that has some of the upper-level protocol stack resident
>  on the card ?  This would relieve some of the host burden and possibly
>  enable TCP/IP over FDDI to run faster.  Also, some sort of MTU discovery 
>  (based on destination network) would be nice, too.
>    Is this realistic.  Any responses are appreciated.  Thanks.

  Might want to talk with the folks at Protocol Engines Inc, since
such is their baileywick.

  Not clear if it will help very much.  The S-BUS bandwidth might be
the critical bottleneck, depending on how the card was designed and
how much faster you really want TCP/IP/FDDI to run.  Note that most
commercial ATM cards with TAXI PHY for S-BUS are bandwidth limited by
the S-BUS.

Ran
atkinson@itd.nrl.navy.mil

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