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From: ricks@well.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: TCP/SLIP != TCP/IP (Was: SLIP speed is surprising)
Message-ID: <3830@well.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 26-Aug-87 23:10:11 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 26 23:10:11 1987
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Summary: Using 3Com card with PD IP/TCP requires more work than author implies




>    There is also a 3com ethernet driver in there. Which means you 
> 2000 owners can get the 3com card for the pc, plug it in, 
> write the lowest-level driver, and have TCP/IP/ETHER. Not a bad deal.
> 
> -- 
> Ron Minnich 

Actually, there is a bit more to it than "get the 3Com card for the pc..." -
namely, you'll also need the Commodore Bridge card to talk to the PC bus
in the 2000.  For this solution, you'll spend:

	Bridge card:		$499 (price from March '87 Byte, p86)
	PC Ethernet card:	$375 (3Com 3C501)
				----
				$874

Add another $299 if you don't have access to a 8086 C compiler to write
the driver.  Of course, you could go out and buy Ameristar's A2000 Ethernet 
card for $699 and use it with the KA9Q package (heck, I'll even give you
the driver!).

						Rick Spanbauer
						SUNY/Stony Brook


PS.  For the record, I do some software/hardware work for Ameristar..