Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!decwrl!ucbvax!BARILVM.BITNET!HANK From: HANK@BARILVM.BITNET (Hank Nussbacher) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc Subject: PcIp scorecard - revision 4 Message-ID: <8805010557.aa05233@Louie.UDEL.EDU> Date: 1 May 88 09:54:52 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: Hank Nussbacher Organization: The Internet Lines: 110 Plz send updates to me directly, as I am not on the list. The Pc/Ip Scorecard revision 4: 05/01/88 --------------------- 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. |Revision 4: a) redefination of max FTP: this column will reflect max | FTP rates from disk to disk. People who have | provided max FTP rates based on NUL, should send me | updated information. A disk can be defined as a real | disk, ramdisk or any other sort of "fast" disk | available on your system. In addition, "k" stands | for Kbytes/per second and not kbits/per second. | This column still stands for transfer to a PC and should | not be measuring transfer from a PC. | b) FTP has been redefined to be FTP client and not server. | c) The vendor column should now include the version and | release name of the system in question (in first table) | d) "name server" has been redefined to be "domain name | server" and not IEN116 | e) "net-BIOS" has been redefined to be be RFC1001/1002 | netBios | f) Added 3com 3c503 and Micom NI5210 cards to list. | g) "gateway" (in the 3rd table) refers to IP forwarding | capability This first table is called "Must Have". Vendor TFTP POP ICMP SMTP VT- 3270 FTP ARP UDP max cost 100 Clnt FTP ($) -------------+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+ Beame | Yes| No | Yes| No | | No | | Yes| Yes| | | Cornell | No| No | Yes| No | No | Yes| No | Yes| Yes| | 25|site CMU | Yes| No | Yes| No | No | No | No | Yes| Yes| | 0| Excelan | No | No | Yes| No | Yes| No | Yes| Yes| Yes| 88k| 250|cpu FTP 2.02 | Yes| No | Yes| Yes| Yes| Yes| Yes| Yes| Yes|114k| 400|cpu FUSION | Yes| No | Yes| Yes| Yes| No | Yes| Yes| Yes| | 300| IBM V1.1 | Yes| Yes| Yes| Yes| No | Yes| Yes| Yes| Yes| 90k| 200|cpu KA9Q | No | No | Yes| Yes| No | No | Yes| Yes| Yes| | 0| MIT | Yes| No | Yes| No | No | No | No | Yes| Yes| | 50|site NCSA | No | No | Yes| No | Yes| No | Yes| Yes| Yes| | 0| Stanford 3.0 | No | Yes| Yes| Yes| Yes| No | Yes| Yes| Yes| | 100|site SUN PC-NFS | No | No | Yes| No | Yes| No | Yes| Yes| Yes| 51k| 395|cpu UB | | | Yes| No | No | No | Yes| Yes| Yes| | 495|cpu WIN/TCP 3.2 | Yes| No | Yes| Yes| Yes| No | Yes| Yes| Yes|200k| 395|cpu The "max FTP" column is for the fastest FTP to a Pc (*not* from) seen by a user (in Kbytes/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 Inter UB WD 3Com UB NIC 3com MICOM 3C501 EXOS205 NI5010 2273A 8003 3C523 PS/2 3C503 NI5210 -----------+-----+--------+------+-----+-----+-----+------+------+------+ Beame | Yes | No | No | No | | | | | Cornell | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No CMU | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No Excelan | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | | FTP | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes FUSION | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | | IBM | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No KA9Q | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | | MIT | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | | NCSA | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes Stanford | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | | Yes | Sun | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes UB | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | | WIN/TCP 3.2| Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | No This table is called the "Nice to Have" table. The functions listed here are not mandatory but are useful in a Tcp/Ip environment: domn time fing whoi NFS gate srce Net- ping SLIP Vendor name srvr way code BIOS srvr 1001 -----------+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+ Beame | Yes| Yes| Yes| No | | | | | Yes| No | | | Cornell | No| No| No| No | No | No | No | No | Yes| No | | | CMU | Yes| Yes| Yes| No | No | No | Yes| No | Yes| Yes| | | Excelan | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes| No | No | | | FTP | Yes| Yes| Yes| Yes| No | Yes| No | No | Yes| Yes| | | FUSION | No | Yes| Yes| Yes| No | No | Yes| No | Yes| No | | | IBM | Yes| Yes| Yes| Yes| No | Yes| Yes| No | Yes| No | | | KA9Q | No | No | No | No | No | Yes| Yes| No | Yes| Yes| | | MIT | Yes| Yes| Yes| Yes| No | No | Yes| No | Yes| No | | | NCSA | Yes| No | No | No | No | Yes| Yes| | Yes| No | | | Stanford | No | Yes| Yes| Yes| No | No | No | | Yes| No | | | Sun | Yes| No | No | No | Yes| No | No | No | Yes| Yes| | | UB | Yes| No | | | No | Yes| No | Yes| Yes| No | | | Wollongong | No | No | No | No | No | Yes| No | No | Yes| No | | | FTP Software is OEMed to BICC Data Networks, Fibronics, Proteon, cisco, Spider Systems, MICOM-Interlan, Scope, Univation and Western Digital.