Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!TAUNIVM.BITNET!HANK From: HANK@TAUNIVM.BITNET (Hank Nussbacher) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc Subject: Pc/Ip scorecard - part II Message-ID: <8802250931.aa16383@Louie.UDEL.EDU> Date: 25 Feb 88 15:28:44 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: Hank Nussbacher Organization: The Internet Lines: 114 X-Unparsable-Date: Thu, 25 Feb 88 16:22:48 IST I wish to thank all those who have made invaluable comments on how to improve the scorecard. I have tried to use most of people's comments, but sometimes I decided to not include a hardware card or IP function, simply because I felt there was not enough of a pressing need to include that information (each person has their own subjective feelings). I have also rearranged items, moving some items to different tables. Please review the new Scorecard and even if you sent me a filled in line, please send me an updated Scorecard for the products you know. Please try to use the form below and try to stay away from listing longhand what features the product has or doesn't have. It is only 50% complete and has a long way to go. Please take the time fill in some boxes and send them my way. I and all other people looking into alternative Pc/Ip solutions will be eternally grateful. Thanks, Hank The Pc/Ip Scorecard revision 2: 02/25/88 --------------------- We are the process of trying to decide which Pc/Ip implementation would be the best. After asking around the overwhelming reply I have received has been, "If you ever find a comparison study, I would love to see it too". That is why I have decided to create the Pc/Ip Scorecard. This scorecard will be like a PC Magazine analysis of of hard disks or printers. But I need help in filling in the boxes. So, here is what the scorecard looks like. Please send me your replies and I will integrate all answers and comments and publish the finalized scorecard in the weeks to come. All Pc/Ip implementations support IP, TCP, FTP and Telnet. The question then is to divide other IP protocols into categories of "must have" to "nice to have but not necessary". This first table is called "Must Have". Vendor TFTP POP ICMP SMTP VT- 3270 FTP ARP UDP max cost 100 FTP ($) -----------+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+ Beame | Yes| No | Yes| No | | No | | Yes| Yes| | | Bellcore | | | | | | | | | | | | CMC | | | | | | | | | | | | CMU | Yes| No | Yes| No | | No | No | Yes| Yes| | 0| Cornell | | | | | | | | | | | | Excelan | | | Yes| | | | | Yes| Yes| | | FTP | Yes| No | Yes| Yes| | Yes| | Yes| Yes|150k| 400| FUSION | | | | | | | | | | | | IBM | Yes| Yes| Yes| Yes| | Yes| | Yes| Yes| | | KA9Q | No | No | Yes| Yes| | No | | Yes| Yes| | 0| MIT | Yes| | Yes| | | | No | Yes| Yes| | 50| NCSA | No | No | Yes| No | | No | | No | No | 30k| 0| Stanford | No | Yes| Yes| Yes| | No | | Yes| Yes| 50k| 100| SUN | No | Yes| Yes| Yes| | Yes| | Yes| Yes| | 300| UB | | | Yes| | | | | Yes| Yes| | | Wollongong | Yes| No | | | | | | | | 25k| 395| The "max FTP" column is for the fastest FTP to a Pc (*not* from) seen by a user (in Kb/sec). It makes no difference in this table which machine was at the other end (obviously the faster the machine at the other end - the better). The following table lists the most popular Ethernet cards available and whether the Pc/Ip implementation works with the stated card. Vendor 3com Excelan Interlan UB WD 3Com UB NIC 3C501 EXOS205 NI5010 2273A 8003 3C523 PS/2 -----------+-----+--------+--------+-----+-----+-----+------+ Beame | Yes | No | No | No | | | | Bellcore | | | | | | | | CMC | | | | | | | | CMU | Yes | No | Yes | No | | | | Cornell | | | | | | | | Excelan | | | | | | | | FTP | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | | No | FUSION | | | | | | | | IBM | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | KA9Q | Yes | No | No | No | | | | MIT | Yes | No | Yes | No | | | | NCSA | Yes | No | No | No | | | | Stanford | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | | Sun | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | | | | UB | | | | | | | | Wollongong | Yes | | | | | | | This table is called the "Nice to Have" table. The functions listed here are not mandatory but are useful in a Tcp/Ip environment: Vendor name time fing whoi NFS gate srce Net ping SLIP srvr way code BIOS -----------+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+ Beame | Yes| Yes| Yes| No | | | | | Yes| No | | | Bellcore | | | | | | | | | | | | | CMC | | | | | | | | | | | | | CMU | Yes| Yes| Yes| No | No | No | Yes| | Yes| Yes| | | Cornell | | | | | | | | | | | | | Excelan | | | | | | | | | | | | | FTP | Yes| Yes| Yes| Yes| | | No | | Yes| Yes| | | FUSION | | | | | | | | | | | | | IBM | Yes| Yes| Yes| Yes| No | Yes| | | Yes| No | | | KA9Q | | | | | | | Yes| | No | Yes| | | MIT | No | | Yes| | | | Yes| | Yes| | | | NCSA | Yes| No | No | No | | | Yes| | Yes| No | | | Stanford | No | Yes| Yes| Yes| No | No | No | | Yes| No | | | Sun | Yes| Yes| Yes| Yes| Yes| | | | Yes| Yes| | | UB | | | | | | | | | Yes| | | | Wollongong | | | | | | | | | | | | | FTP Software is OEMed to BICC ISOLAN, Fibronics and Proteon.