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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Excelan Ethernet board on Sun?
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Date: Wed, 26-Nov-86 18:00:12 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 26 18:00:12 1986
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Has anyone ever tried adding the Excelan VMEbus Ethernet board to a Sun-3?
On paper it looks possible.  We may have a requirement for which it would
be very desirable to put a *smart* Ethernet controller on our 3/180S.  It's
not clear to me just which controller Sun sells as its add-on one, but some
things in the manuals hint to me that it's the old 3Com unintelligent one.
This doesn't thrill me.  Being able to download TCP/IP into the Excelan
board is of particular interest to us.  Any experience with this particular
combination, or similar alternatives?  For that matter, any experiences
with using the Excelan board (or equivalents) with TCP/IP on board?

Please respond by mail; I will summarize for the net.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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