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From: my@falcon.nsc.com (Michael Yip)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: FDDI availability
Keywords: FDDI
Message-ID: <1991Mar9.015811.26302@berlioz.nsc.com>
Date: 9 Mar 91 01:58:11 GMT
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Reply-To: my@falcon.nsc.com (Michael Yip)
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> From: godbey@srg.uucp (Nick Godbey 301-266-4525 Home 301-268-8538)
> Subject: FDDI availability
> Organization: SRG, Arinc Research Corp., Annapolis, MD
> 
> Does anyone know if you can buy FDDI network boards for AT and EISA buss
> machines yet? If will tcp/ip which comes standard with SUNs and SYSV 
> machines work with them?
> 	We would like to change our ethernet running tcp/ip over to FDDI and
> get the 100 mb transfer rates I hear about.


NPI makes both AT and EISA boards for FDDI.  I know that they
provide both Novell and PC-NFS drivers.  The phone number is
(408) 954-8030.  I used the AT version but didn't try the EISA
board.  The performance is OK and I think that the bottle neck
is AT and the AT bus.  It comes with a node processor on the 
board.

-- Mike