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From: briggs@puma.bevd.blacksburg.va.us (Allen Briggs)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: netbsd/mac68k and ethernet support
Date: 22 Aug 1995 14:43:02 GMT
Organization: Home, Blacksburg, Virginia
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In article <418b25$clc_001@net.wisc.edu>,
Ashok Aiyar <aiyar@oncology.wisc.edu> wrote:
>What is the current status of ethernet card support for NetBSD/Mac?  

The Mac IIci's ethernet just recently started working (well, it didn't
do it on its own, but you get the idea ;-).  The Asante cards are my
primary recommendation because I've been running two of them in my IIcx
for a while.  The older Apple cards should also work, and I think
there's a Farallon that works, too.

>I would like to put this machine on 
>the building network as a mail (smtp/pop3/imap), gopher (GN) and/or
>www (WN, Apache, or NCSA HTTPd) server.  Is this going to be feasible?

Should work OK.  I suggest that you get on the macbsd-general@netbsd.org
mailing list.  There are several IIci owners on there.  One of them even
did some timings--finding that NetBSD/mac68k runs several times faster
than the older MacTCP drivers under the MacOS.

-allen

-- 
Allen Briggs - end killing - allen.briggs@bev.net ** MacBSD == NetBSD/mac68k **
   Where does all my time go?  <a href="http://www.netbsd.org/">Guess.</a>