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From: morrison@eecs.nwu.edu (Vance Morrison)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: Need lan cards for PC based Unix and ATs
Message-ID: <3880006@eecs.nwu.edu>
Date: 8 Aug 88 02:33:34 GMT
References: <378@ucrmath.UUCP>
Organization: Northwestern U, Evanston IL, USA
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Hello,

I happen to know that Micom-Interlan makes a board that will do
TCP/IP on SCO Xenix.  There is also a company that makes TCP/IP
software that uses 3Com and Western Digital card (unfortuately
I dont remember it off hand, write me if you realy want it).

The micom card is "smart" and does the TCP/IP code on the card.
This is a selling feature on slow IBM PC's, but for 386's it
may not make sense since the main cpu can do it faster than the
card (unless it has better things to do).  Thats why I actually
lean toward the software solution (TCP/IP may change (again) and
I can't believe it will be really easy to upgrade the cards).

One problem you should know about.  At present neither of these
solutions alow the Xenix host to be a router.  However both company's
have promised this feature in the near future.

As far as NFS/RCP, these sit on top of TCP/IP, thus it usually
comes with your socket/streams library (or is an option).

Vance Morrison
Northwestern Univ.
morrison@accuvax.nwu.edu