On Wed, 1 May 2002, Richard Erlacher wrote:
> See below, plz.
>
> Dick
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Pat Finnegan" <pat_at_purdueriots.com>
>
> > On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, Richard Erlacher wrote:
> >
> First of all, it's not necessary that the MAC be capable of the highest
> bandwidth. I was just curious what's out there. Secondly, for a 5-6 staton
> LAN, including servers, it makes little sense to have lots of
> switching/routing hardware and a complex topology. Right now, what's active
> is one of two servers and a single station (this one). I get inquiries about
> the 10Gb and faster hardware from time to time, and, having not even ventured,
> in any sense, into the 1 Gb stuff, I'm just looking around.
My point was that with a very small number of machines that are as slow as
a 68040 or 486, there's no way in hell you'll even come close to
saturating a 1Gbit line, let alone a 10Gbit line, so it makes no sense at
all to spend the money on it, unless you just want to 'play with a new
really cool toy'. Of course, we all know there's nothing wrong with that :).
Personally, I've never seen a need for anything as fast as 1Gbit, let
alone 10Gbit. Not even Purdue, with the tens of thouseands of computers
they seem to have, has anything faster than a 1Gbit line... and those are
only in it's routing/switching core and it's connection to the Internet2.
I'm just saying it's very impractical for most situations to try and
implement 10000BaseT, or whatever you want to call it, with current
technologies - unless you're Sridhar or something.
> ... and what's an LC PDS slot? What's a suitable NIC that's common enough I
> might see one?
Google is your friend. A quick search of "LC PDS slot" turns up these
pictures:
1) a picture of the slot (the connector witout a card in it, a 3x6 and
3xalot connetor joined together):
http://sites.uol.com.br/emersonwsm/ethernetlcpds/slotpds.jpg
2) a picture of two LC PDS cards:
http://gannet.stockton.edu/compserv/ethernetlccard.gif
Just find any NIC that says it fits an LC PDS card. Most major Mac brands
of NICs (like Asante or Farallon) make (or should I say 'made') one. If
you want more information, try using google, that's about the best I can
help with.
-- Pat
Received on Wed May 01 2002 - 09:50:15 BST
