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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!agate!hpg30a.csc.cuhk.hk!news.cuhk.edu.hk!newsfeeder.ust.hk!nntp.hk.super.net!news.iij.ad.jp!news.CET.CO.JP!usenet From: Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.aix Subject: Re: ISP hardware/software choices (performance comparison) Date: 22 Jan 1996 14:43:31 GMT Organization: CATENA Enterprise Technologies Lines: 33 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <4e07qj$6vv@diablo.cet.co.jp> References: <4cmopu$d35@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <bryDL7E84.LG3@netcom.com> <4dgjg8$78i@nntpb.cb.att.com> <4dqsr1$351@diablo.cet.co.jp> <4dr5rc$473@dyson.iquest.net> <palowodaDLKpxv.Jv8@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: a06m.cet.co.jp Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.2N (Windows; I; 16bit) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:2098 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:2250 comp.unix.solaris:58111 comp.unix.aix:69390 palowoda@netcom.com (Bob Palowoda) wrote: >John S. Dyson (root@dyson.iquest.net) wrote: >: In article <4dqsr1$351@diablo.cet.co.jp>, >: Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp> wrote: >: > >: >You may find it interesting that one of the recommended motherboards for >: >running BSDI was a dual-pentium Neptune. Of course people were just >: >buying them with one CPU. >: > >: I would not "recommend" a dual-pentium Neptune motherboard unless you >: needed MP support right now. Firstly Neptune has had historical problems >: supporting more than (2, I think) PCI bus masters, and usually significantly >: slower than Triton. The disadvantage of Triton is that it only supports >: 128MB of ram (64MB cached in some cases). That limitation is usually a bit >: less constraining (for example gateway applications where you might want >: 2 ethernet interfaces, 1 scsi -- Bzzt -- 3 busmasters.) > >Hmm, I'm running two scsi controllers and 1 ethernet on a dual >Neptune (all which I believe are pci busmasters), both cpu's >are enabled, Solaris 2.5. What are the details of this problem? I don't think the Tyan 1462 has these problems. I'll stick with the stable stuff for a while. I had a nightmare of a time with a bleeding edge MB that had PnP and integrated IDE. These things just got in the way. Are there any stable Triton MBs that don't have PnP? -- Mike Hancock michaelh@cet.co.jp