Re: add additional NIC to sparcstation 4?
From: Darren Dunham (ddunham_at_redwood.taos.com)
Date: 07/15/03
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Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 19:43:40 GMT
In comp.unix.solaris LHradowy <laura.hradowy@nospam.mts.ca> wrote:
> I am not overly family with the architecture of the sparc 4, but right now I
> have it set up at a DHCP server, I would like to add another NIC to it to
> configure another subnet.
You can configure another subnet on the original interface if your
network supports it. This can be nice for some things, but wouldn't be
appropriate for say a firewall. It would eliminate the need to move
hardware around and wire up another port.
> Can this be done... It looks like everything is on board to the mother
> board.
One interface is on the motherboard. You can add additional interfaces
via expansion slots.
> If it can be done, what type of network card would fit. I have a sparc 5 can
> I take it from there...
Any sbus card with drivers in your OS should work. 'le', 'hme', and
'qfe' would be the most popular drivers to support such hardware. There
were other cards that used the 'be' drivers (10/100, half-duplex only)
that are no longer supported.
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