[9fans] 100base ether card

[Eric Dorman edorman@tanya.UCSD.EDU]

On Fri, Jul 10, 1998 at 04:17:32PM +0900, Kenji Arisawa wrote:
> Hello 9fans,
> 
> Thank you for the information on 100base ether cards.
[xxx]
> >...
> I would be happy if these cards are available on Plna9.
> Now 100base card are cheap enough, so I really want to connect
> file server and cpu server with 100base cards.

My goal is to have a 10baseT network for terminals and etc.
while having a IP-capable 'backbone' for fs<>cpu communication.
Unfortunately the current fs has no plumbing for IP routing so
all that glop will have to be written plus multiple interface
stuff and config syntax to match.

The 'quick&dirty' way would be to convince fs and cpu that
the 100base is a fiber, but that does not serve my particular
purpose.

One question though:  The plan9 documents show an abstract
picture of a 'large plan9 installation' which contains
(I believe) two cpus connected to an fs over fiber.  Was
there actually a system built with fiber like that anywhere?

> And Eric Dorman says:
> >  The driver compiles cleanly now and I'm going through and
> >checking out all the functions.  I hope to have it working
> >relatively soon.  If you'd like to play with it I can forward
> >the code to you.
> When you finish the work, please forward the code to me.

Sure.  I now have a BayNetworks FA310TX de21140 card, so hope
to have something more available working than the older
Linksys LNE100TX card (sadly NLA).  Presumably the cards jmk
mentioned should work as well.

> Kenji Arisawa
> E-mail: arisawa@aichi-u.ac.jp

Regards,

Eric Dorman
edorman@ucsd.edu