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From: melohn@sluggo.sun.COM (Bill Melohn)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: Excelan Ethernet board on Sun?
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Date: Sat, 29-Nov-86 01:46:58 EST
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In article <7355@utzoo.UUCP> henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes:
>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.

All Sun-3 models except the 3/5x use the Intel 82586 Ethernet chip. The 3/5x
uses the AMD 7990 lance chip. Both of these are "smart", and being located
on the CPU board have a speed advantage over external cards.