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From: msd@nrcvax.UUCP (Marc Dye)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: DEC DELUA or Interlan N1010A ??
Message-ID: <916@nrcvax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 15-May-87 03:05:31 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 15 03:05:31 1987
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Reply-To: msd@minnie.UUCP (Marc S. Dye)
Organization: Network Research Corp.  Oxnard, CA
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One piece of information that may or may not be helpful:

	The Interlan controller (NI1010A) operates at an
	extremely degraded rate (like about 1/6th!) if not
	using it's ROM-based Ethernet address.

This is not usually an issue when Network Layer to Link Layer
address mapping is performed by something like ARP (normal TCP/IP
fare these days), but has caused trouble in multiple controller
installations of XNS protocols, for example, where the host address
is the same for all link layer interfaces and the mapping from
XNS to Ethernet addresses is trivial.


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