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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uwm.edu!src.honeywell.com!recnews-2.4 From: englehar@src.honeywell.com (Matt Englehart) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: connecting a sparc10 and PC together Date: 9 Jun 1995 09:35:49 -0500 Organization: mailEnteringNews @ Honeywell Technology Center Lines: 25 Sender: daemon@src.honeywell.com Message-ID: <9506091435.AA28260@akela.src.honeywell.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: moon.src.honeywell.com X-Received: from akela.src.honeywell.com by src.honeywell.com (4.1/smail2.6.3/SRCv0.25); Fri, 9 Jun 95 09:35:44 CDT id AA15543 for comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc at Posted-Date: Fri, 9 Jun 95 09:35:43 CDT Received-Date: Fri, 9 Jun 95 09:35:44 CDT X-Received: by akela.src.honeywell.com (4.1/SMI-3.2) id AA28260; Fri, 9 Jun 95 09:35:43 CDT X-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Hello, I have been using freeBSD for a while now on my 486. I would like to network the 486 and a Sparc10 together. Can anyone tell me what the most up-to-date possibilities are? I will lead out with what I know, and hope that some of you can fill in the answers: 1) ethernet connection: I need to buy an ethernet card for the PC, make sure its driver is in the kernel. Question: what is the status on the problem noted in the FAQ directory about NFS'ing to high performance machines requiring qulaity cards? What is the cheapest card that will work between a Sun and the PC, and is supported (troublefree) by FreeBSD? 2) laplink connection: I buy a laplink cable and connect the PC to the Sun through the parallel ports. Question: how well does this work in the latest snapshots and releases? Does a vanilla SParc10 have this capability? Is there a kernel mod that needs to be made on the Sun? 3) PPP connection: I run a null modem cable between the Sun and PC, and run PPP between them. Question: what kind of throughput can be expected? I'd really appreciate any information or anecdotes anyone can share. Thanks, Matt