30 Apr
2002
30 Apr
'02
3:24 p.m.
On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, Richard Erlacher wrote:
What's the "right" way to add networking
to the MAC? I'm not inclined to buy
into standard Ethernet, since I've got 100Mbps and am looking to move to the
bleeding edge for educational purposes. Is there any >10Gbps stuff one can
add? How about just the 100 Mbps?
I'll assume you meant ">10Mbps". 10Gbps would be a bit faster than a
stock Performa could do.
Adding 100Mbit ethernet to a 68040-based MAC like your Performa 630 IMHO
wouldn't be all that usable. In fact, I don't think there are any >10MBit
cards that will fit into an LC PDS slot unless you're wanting to do 16MBit
Token Ring (and I'm not sure if anyone ever made 16/4 Token Ring cards for
that form factor). You probably could build your own NIC, but that'd be
quite a bit of effort.
-- Pat