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From: cavenerl@nbnet.nb.ca (Lance Cavener)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: Networking help
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1996 00:13:39 GMT
Organization: VSi
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fzshenau@rocky.ucdavis.edu (Gregory Shenaut) wrote:
>Lance Cavener (cavenerl@nbnet.nb.ca) wrote:
>:
>: Im trying to connect 3 computers to my computer here that has the
>: connection to the internet hooked to it. Does this mean I have to have
>: 4 ethernet cards in that computer? One to the router to the internet,
>: and the other 3 for each of the computers? Or could I use 10baseT and
>: a hub with only one card in each PC? Where could I find some detailed
>: instructions as to configuring a tcpip network with BSDI?
>If the three other computers are all in the same room or fairly nearby,
>you might consider 10base2/thinnet cabling. You would need a second
>card in the machine connected to the Internet, and one card in each of
>the other machines. I use el cheapo NE2000 clones with good success,
>but apparently these can produce errors under load, so maybe another
>type of card, such as the ubiquitous 3c905b, would be preferable.
>I can't see buying a hub unless you need to for distance or wiring
>reasons.
See the thing is we allready have boxes of 3c509 cards (which are TP
not T2) and I cannot get 3c509 working with BSDI in our computers. I
have tried everything, including long hours on the phone with my
reseller. Anyway, we went out and bought 2 3c595 PCI cards (which are
very -VERY- nice.. Too bad Cisco 25000's don't support Fast ether!)
and they work great. We also went out and spent 200$ on a 8 port hub..
This should do the job and give us room to expand in the future..
>For more info, look at Chapter 15 ("Network Hardware") in Nemeth
>et al. (1995)'s UNIX System Administration (2nd Ed). (IMHO, you
>need to get this book anyway for chapters 1-14 and 16-32.)
Great.. Would you happen to have a ISBN number for that? (Or do they
have a web page like O'Reily?)
Thanks,
Lance Cavener