Re: sbus card for 10/100BaseT ethernet in a sparcstation 10?

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From: DoN. Nichols
Date: Sun, 01 Jan 2006 02:58

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According to Kralizec Craig  <cd@lios.apana.org.au>:
> Dave <INVALID-see-signature-for-how-to-determine@southminster-branch-line.org.uk> writes:
> 
> >Paul S. Brown wrote:
> >> Arthur Wouk wrote:
> >> 
> >> 
> >>>is there such a card?
> >> 
> >> 
> >> The X1056A (SunFastEthernet 1.0) seems to support the SS10 directly, however
> >> I can say from experience that you can more or less stuff any SBus card you
> >> have drivers for into the system including the QFEs 
> 
> >The qfe is not supported in Solaris 9 and I'm not sure when support was 
> >dropped. I have one here, but it is next to useless.
> 
> The Sbus QFE's are supported in NetBSD - perfect for use as a firewall
> machine.

	And -- also OpenBSD supports the QFEs.  I've got one in an
Ultra-1/140 which works very nicely for that very purpose.

	Enjoy,
		DoN.
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