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From: garvin@ccvr1.ncsu.edu (Michael Garvin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Easy Ethernet Suggestion!
Keywords: pocket transceiver ethernet next 1000
Message-ID: <1990Dec10.214049.14170@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu>
Date: 10 Dec 90 21:40:49 GMT
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Reply-To: garvin@ccvr1.ncsu.edu (Michael Garvin)
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     Actually, a few of us here at work got to talking about the logistics
of this the other day.  It can be done, and you should achieve about 10k/sec
throughput before killing the CPU.  We nixed the idea, however, in favor of
implementing a real SLIP system (slip.device) due to the fact that we don't
have much call for A500/1000's and we want to use our home Amigas to do
TCP/IP.  But, the project appears feasible, if not relatively (to other
machines/cards/etc) expensive at around $400 for the hardware.  Another
thing to consider is the fact that, to do things right, you'll really want a
BSD (yes, I'm biased) socket interface library so that you can port existing
applications straight over to the Amiga (sendmail, ftp, ntp, etc); we are
going to try to do this with our SLIP system.  Also, before people start
mailing, we aren't going to start work on this for another month or so, and
we don't know if we will complete it (with work and school left), so if you
see something on the net about it next year you'll know we did it.


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