Xref: utzoo comp.dcom.lans:7224 comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc:4882 Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!mshiels From: mshiels@tmsoft.uucp (Michael A. Shiels) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans,comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc Subject: PC/AT Ethernet card scorecard (blank to be filled in) Message-ID: <1991Feb10.175251.27969@tmsoft.uucp> Date: 10 Feb 91 17:52:51 GMT Reply-To: mshiels@tmsoft.UUCP (Michael A. Shiels) Followup-To: comp.dcom.lans Organization: MaS Network Software and Consulting Lines: 171 Lets see how complete a list of popular ethernet cards we can make this into! PC/AT Ethernet Card Scorecard ----------------------------- comments from Bob Lummis , david@monymsys.vmp.com (David Kozinn) Brian.Onn@Canada.Sun.COM (Brian Onn) Rob Miracle . means the card does not have the attribute X means the card has the attribute ? means not verified one way or the other Manufacturer |Card size| Cable plugs | Model | 1 3 1 | 10baseT|Fiber| | / / |AUI|Coax|STP|UTP| 11| 45|Optic| ____________________________|_2__4____|___|____|___|___|_______|_____| | | | | | | | | 1/2 - 1/2 card or approximately 3/4 - 3/4 card or approximately 1 - full card or approximately AUI - standard thick ethernet Coax - standard thin ethernet STP - proprietary Shielded Twisted Pair UTP - proprietary Unshielded Twisted Pair 10BaseT 11 - 10baseT with RJ11 10BaseT 45 - 10baseT with RJ45 Fiber Optic - fiber optic (wow eh!) Manufacturer | LEDs present Model | Link | Transmit | Receive | Error | Parity | Integrity | ____________________________|__________|_________|_______|________|___________| | | | | | | Manufacturer | FCC | Warranty | Model | | | | A | B | | ____________________________|___|___|__________| | | | Manufacturer | Configuration | Model | | | Jumpers | Software | ____________________________|_________|__________| | | | Manufacturer | Bus Interface | Bus | Model | ISA EISA MCA | Master | | 8 16 | 32 | | | ____________________________|___|____|______|_____|________| | | | | | | Manufacturer | Onboard Model | Ethernet Memory | CPU | Controller Transceiver | Low High | ____________________________|_______|____________|_____________|______|______| | | | | | | Manufacturer | Software Interface Model | ISA DMA | | | | byte | burst | demand | IO | Memory | ____________________________|______|_______|________|____|_________| | | | | | | Manufacturer | IO Port Addresses Model | | ____________________________|_____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ | | | | | | | | | List all possible IO address Manufacturer | DMA Channels Model | 8 bit | 16 bit | | 0 1 2 3 | 4 5 6 7 | ____________________________|___ ___ ___ ___|___ ___ ___ ___| | | | | | | | | | List all possible DMA channels Manufacturer | IRQ numbers Model | PC | 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 ____________________________|___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | List all possible IRQ numbers Manufacturer | Interface RAM Model | Size Addresses | Low | High | ____________________________|______|______|______|______|______|______|______| | | | | | | | | List all possible addresses and the size of the RAM Manufacturer | Interface ROM Model | Size Addresses | Low | High | ____________________________|______|______|______|______|______|______|______| | | | | | | | | List all possible address and the size of the ROM Manufacturer | BOOT PROMs available Model | SUN LANMAN | 3com | Novell | PCNFS | BWNFS | DOS OS/2 | ____________________________|______|________|_______|_______|_____|______|______| | | | | | | | | Manufacturer | Software Drivers Available Model | NDIS | FTP | | DOS | OS/2 | Packet | ____________________________|_1__2_|_1__2_|________| | | | | NDIS DOS 1 - NDIS 1.x drivers for DOS NDIS DOS 2 - NDIS 2.x drivers for DOS NDIS OS/2 1 - NDIS 1.x drivers for OS/2 NDIS OS/2 2 - NDIS 2.x drivers for OS/2 FTP Packet - this field can contain the following FTP - from FTP software Clarkson - from the clarkson collection manuf - from the manufacturer Manufacturer | Software Drivers Available Model | Novell | DEC | FTP | SUN | | OBJ | ODI | PCSA | Native | PCNFS | ____________________________|_____|_____|______|________|_______| | | | | | | Novell OBJ - Novell linkable only .OBJ files Novell ODI - Novell 386 ODI interface FTP Native - prelinked into the FTP TCP/IP kernel Manufacturer | Network Management Supported Model | SNMP | SNMP | | | UDP | ether| CMIP | ____________________________|______|______|______| | | | | SNMP UDP - SNMP over IP/UDP SNMP ether - SNMP over raw Ethernet packets Manufacturer | Address/Contact information Model | | Programming information contact ____________________________|_________________________________________________ | Include all the known offices for the manufacturer including international offices. 1-800 numbers are also great to include. Internet contact names would be great to include but I think that gives companies on the internet an unfair advantage.