Subject: Re: Shark, 2nd ether?
To: Mark Brinicombe <mark@causality.com>
From: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com>
List: port-arm32
Date: 08/12/1999 13:51:37
On Thu, Aug 12, 1999 at 12:22:31AM -0700, Mark Brinicombe wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, Phil Nelson wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> >   I was wondering if someone has put a second ethernet interface on a
> > shark.  It looks like I'll be trying TCI@home (aka ATT@home) and
> > I don't want to pay for multiple IPs ($5/mo/ip address!) and am thinking
> > about a gateway machine (with ipnat ...) for my home network.  What
> > I'd like is to have a Shark be the gateway so it could run with no fan
> > noise all the time.  
> > 
> >   I'd be interested in any information on this that anyone has.  
> > PCI? USB? ...
> Hi,
>   I was looking at putting a second CS8900 ethernet chip into some SHARKs.
> This seems fairly easy to do, the only problem I had was source CS8900
> silicon is small quantities.'

If you're going to make some of those funky UMI boards, I bet if you
made PCI ones with 100Mb/sec Ethernet on them you could sell a bunch
to other shark folks.  Lack of 100Mb Ethernet (and maybe lack of pciide,
sigh) is the only thing really wrong with the Shark from my point of 
view.