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From: smith@sctc.com (Rick Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Board Level Ethernet/TCP/IP Products
Message-ID: <1991May14.161034.17363@sctc.com>
Date: 14 May 91 16:10:34 GMT
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Organization: SCTC
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I'm looking for information about Ethernet boards packaged with
a TCP/IP protocol suite. We need access both to the transport
layer facilities (TCP/IP/UDP) and to "raw" Ethernet packets
(i.e. physical addresses bypassing logical addresses).
We're using it with a VMEbus based system.

I'd also be interested to hear if anyone knows of a supplier of
VME boards that just have some LANCE chips and VME drivers.

So far I've heard about 3 suppliers:

Motorola has an Ethernet comm board, though our local techie says
that you can't get raw Ethernet with their stock software. They'll
sell a TCP/IP package to us, but I don't think you can drop below
ARP and use physical addresses.

CMC ("a Rockwell company") has a similar board, and sells "Protocol
Implementor's Kits" for TCP/IP or OSI. The kits include binaries
for TCP/IP that run on the board.  Alternatively you can load up
their "Link Level Driver" and talk directly to the Ethernet.

Then there's SBE, Inc., which has a similar line of products.
They have their VLAN-E and MLAN-E boards that run a version of
TCP/IP from "Spider Systems." Their PR blurb claims that they also
support a link level interface.

Now The Question: has anyone had experience with any of these or
any other similar boards? Good? Bad? Did it process this news
item? Would it be transmitting your reply to me? I'll post a
summary of any e-mail responses I get.

Rick.
smith@sctc.com    Arden Hills, Minnesota.