Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!jarthur!ucivax!milne From: milne@ics.uci.edu (Alastair Milne) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs Subject: Re: PC-NFS gotchas (followup) Message-ID: <2807EB31.14469@ics.uci.edu> Date: 14 Apr 91 05:40:01 GMT References: Distribution: comp Organization: UC Irvine Department of ICS Lines: 24 In droms@jasper.bucknell.edu (Ralph E. Droms) writes: >This is a quick followup to my previous query about PC-NFS. I >neglected to point out that the PCs that we would like to interconnect >do not currently have any network hardware. The PC-NFS >hardware/software package appears to retail for ~$700 (in quantity >10), which would come to about $450-$500 with our educational >discount. Is the network interface hardware from Sun a reasonable >choice, or would I do better to buy the hardwrae and software >separately? Honestly, I don't know. I think our site got a better deal by hunting through the local vendors for one willing to sell us 10 WD8003E's cheaply ($200-$300, I *think*), and the prices we got that way were a lot better than what was in Sun's bundle. So I think it depends on being able to find a willing local vendor. In case you have any microchannel machines to go on your net: I don't think Sun includes microchannel net boards in their bundle. We waited quite a while for ours -- we needed 2 -- because it took that long to find a vendor who could get them for a reasonable price. Alastair Milne