10mbit (le) cards especially as le/esp cards are fairly cheap (as these
things go).  They're available at or sub $50 for sbus from Bodoman (408
752 0455) in Santa Clara CA.  Much more reasonable than the $150 apiece
they used to go for.  I also have a spare one myself.  Other nice
benefit: most of them are RJ45, not AUI or BNC.

--
Sean Berry works with many flavors of UNIX, but especially Solaris/SPARC and
NetBSD.  His hobbies include graphics and raytracing.  He drinks coke mostly.
His opinions are not necessarily those of his employers.  

On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Carl Lowenstein wrote:

> > From port-alpha-owner-clowenst=ucsd.edu@netbsd.org Thu Jul 26 10:07 PDT 2001
> > Delivered-To: port-alpha@netbsd.org
> > Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 13:06:19 -0400
> > From: "J. Scott Kasten" <jsk@tetracon-eng.net>
> > To: <port-alpha@netbsd.org>
> > cc: "NetBSD/Sparc Mail List \(E-mail\)" <port-sparc@netbsd.org>
> > Subject: Re: DEC Multias or SS1+ & SS2?
> > MIME-Version: 1.0
> > 
> > 
> > The 166 Alphas are the faster of the boxes you are comparing.  You don't
> > say exactly what your DSL data speed is, however, I can give you some
> > concrete examples here:
> > 
> > An SS1+ under NetBSD, Linux, or Solaris will be able to saturate the
> > upstream bandwidth of a 400Mb/sec DSL connection with static content.
> > However, SSH type secure logins would be painfully slow to initiate with
> > the 25MHz CPU.  Thus frequent logins for remote administration makes
> > these undesireable, although these machines are fast enough to handle the
> > load when the connection is established.  It's just the key generation and
> > so forth that kills it.  It's adequate, but not preferred.  May be a good
> > caching DNS box.  Not sure how it would do in a firewall only mode.
> 
> Something to think about:  it is pretty easy to get a second network
> connection for a Multia -- either a PCI card or PCMCIA.  It is not so
> easy to get an Sbus network card for the second network connection on a
> Sparc because they (the Sbus cards) were manufactured in small quantity
> at high prices.
> 
>     carl
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>         carl lowenstein         marine physical lab     u.c. san diego
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>                                                   clowenstein@ucsd.edu
> 
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