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From: madd@world.std.com (jim frost)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Ethernet for ATs??
Message-ID: <1989Oct26.153444.5393@world.std.com>
Date: 26 Oct 89 15:34:44 GMT
References: <1989Oct25.171702.6303@mccc.uucp>
Reply-To: madd@world.UUCP (jim frost)
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In article <1989Oct25.171702.6303@mccc.uucp> root@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg) writes:
|I would like to connect a bunch of ATs into an existing Ethernetwork.  What
|Ethernet cards exist for the AT?  What software would be appropriate?
|Thanks.

There are a variety of Ethernet cards for AT-class machines, but my
favorite is the WD Ethercard Plus.  It's cheap (I picked up a
mail-order card for $230, although $240-$250 is pretty standard) and
performs quite well.

As for software, it all depends on what you really want to do.  On my
machine, I used it to talk between UNIX machines; I ran Interactive's
386/ix and SCO Xenix (the former had better TCP/IP support, BTW).

If you want this capability under MS-DOS, try FTP Software's PC/TCP
package.  It is an excellent package at a fair price.  This will give
you many of the interactive utilities (such as telnet and ftp) and
eats very little memory for the functionality.

If you want NFS client support under MS-DOS, Sun Microsystems' PC-NFS
works pretty well.  The last time I used it it ate up about 200k of
memory, though.  It also comes with several networking utilities for
logging into UNIX machines.  I don't believe there is NFS server
support for MS-DOS machines but you should ask Sun about that.

If you want a PC LAN, I can't give any information.

Good luck,

jim frost
software tool & die
madd@std.com