Re: When were the VFE drivers incorporated into IRIX?
From: SkyWriter (skywriter_at_mrnutty.com)
Date: 12/07/04
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Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2004 01:25:12 GMT
Jon T wrote:
> I am returning to IRIX admin support after being 'away' for 5 years, so
> I'm a bit rusty on my knowledge.
>
> The company I'm consulting at is still using Challenge L and XL systems
> with FDDI as their main network. The company's retiring support for
> FDDI by the end of this year, and some of these will be migrated to
> using the VMW VFE boards (the rest to 10BaseT), and I know all the
> trouble these boards can cause.
ah... FDDI is so nice, you can even get a nice SMC Eliteswitch to bust up
the ring, and get more network bisection bandwidth.
>
>
> When were the drivers for the VFE boards incorporated into the OS, and
> are no longer a seperate package? Was it at 6.5, or later than that?
> In my 6.5.13 system, I don't see any vfe packages and it's working
> fine. I plan on installing in a 6.5.9 system. Will it need special
> drivers, or is it a recognized board?
> Thanks! (pity comments welcome ;) )
>
> Jon
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