On Tue, 26 May 1998 21:19:10 -0400  Matt Thomas wrote:

> At 02:46 PM 5/26/98 , Jason Thorpe wrote:
> >On Tue, 26 May 1998 11:36:25 -0400, I wrote:
> >
> > > fta0 at tc0 slot 0 offset 0x0: DEC DEFTA TC FDDI SAS Controller 
> > > fta0: FDDI address 08:00:2b:a0:1f:0d, FW=0.7a, HW=2, SMT V7.2 
> > > fta0: FDDI Port = S (PMD = ANSI Single-Mode Type 1) 
> >
> >Cool!  :-)
> 
> I think so!
> 
> >Please try it with the lastest version of pmax/bus_dma.c (1.2).
> 
> After fixing the latest version, ping times are getting reasonable.
> 
> matt@baker> mips.ttcp -t -s -f m -n 8192 -u 10.16.176.70
> ttcp-t: buflen=8192, nbuf=8192, align=16384/0, port=5001  udp  -> 10.16.176.70
> ttcp-t: socket
> ttcp-t: 67108864 bytes in 12.60 real seconds = 40.63 Mbit/sec +++
> ttcp-t: 8198 I/O calls, msec/call = 1.57, calls/sec = 650.62
> ttcp-t: 0.2user 12.3sys 0:12real 99% 0i+0d 0maxrss 0+2pf 0+144csw
> 
> Slow compared to my alphas but sure the Ethernet its on.  Tomorrow
> I get to see if I can boot and run diskless over fddi.

Good luck with this.  Certainly the 5000 series doesn't understand
booting diskless via MOP over a defta.  That's the only reason that
all of our FDDI equiped machines have anything at all on the in-built
ethernet port.

I've never tried to boot via tftp on one of these machines.

Simon.