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From: kwe@bu-cs.BU.EDU (kwe@bu-it.bu.edu (Kent W. England))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.proteon
Subject: Re: New hardware and software
Summary: Works well
Message-ID: <22799@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Date: 23 May 88 16:59:02 GMT
References: <8805230110.AA00698@devvax.TN.CORNELL.EDU>
Reply-To: kwe@buit13.bu.edu (Kent England)
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Organization: Boston Univ. Information Tech. Dept.
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In article <8805230110.AA00698@devvax.TN.CORNELL.EDU> jch@DEVVAX.TN.CORNELL.EDU (Jeffrey C Honig) writes:
>Can anyone relate any experiences, good or bad, with Proteon's new
>Ethernet and CPU cards and version 8.0 of the software?
>
>Does anyone actually have any of these new goodies yet?

	Boston University beta tested the new CPUs and new Enet boards
with good results.  We didn't have any hardware problems to speak of
and only one software problem.  To save memory, Proteon changed the
default number of DECnet nodes and  this caused us to lose some DECNet
nodes until we figured out the source of the problem.

	I don't have any hard throughput numbers.  We are running IP
and DECnet.  Rel 7.4 worked well for us, so Rel 8.0 was transparent.

	There are a few added features in 8.0.  One nice one is
console port security.  There are also configureable ARP cache
time-out parameters now.

	I hope to have more hard data soon, but we have been
overworked and struggling to fix the Pronet FOI receiver aging problem
at the same time as the beta.

	Kent England, Boston University