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Subject: S-Bus Enet Cards (Summ
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> I'd appreciate a recommendation for an S-Bus ethernet board. 

All respondents recommended Sun's board (even the guy from Sun :-) It
costs $400. The following is representative of the answers I received:

From: jmoore@Solbourne.COM (Jim Moore)

I would guess that all the cards are *exactly* equivalent. If the
manufacturer is using the LSI Logic Sbus DMA chip, then the only thing to
do is to wire it up to a AMD Lance ethernet controller and put it on an
Sbus board. I have not seen any manufacturers claiming to have improved on
this design. So I'd just look at price and warrantee.

Thanks also to:
    fpb@ittc.wec.com (Frank P. Bresz)
    srm@unify.com (Steve Maraglia)
    nn@Eng.Sun.COM (Neal Nuckolls)