From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (cthulhu.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.2]) by neteng.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id JAA73634 for ; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 09:09:46 -0800 (PST) Return-Path: Received: (from majordomo-owner@localhost) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) id JAA03378 for linux-list; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 09:08:41 -0800 (PST) mail_from (owner-linux@relay.engr.sgi.com) Received: from sgi.com (sgi.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.37]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id JAA01892 for ; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 09:08:15 -0800 (PST) mail_from (matomira@acm.org) Received: from link.csem.ch (link.csem.ch [138.131.145.25]) by sgi.com (980327.SGI.8.8.8-aspam/980304.SGI-aspam: SGI does not authorize the use of its proprietary systems or networks for unsolicited or bulk email from the Internet.) via ESMTP id JAA07606 for ; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 09:08:12 -0800 (PST) mail_from (matomira@acm.org) Received: from exchsrv.csem.ch by link.csem.ch; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 18:08:29 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <199902081708.SAA27270@link.csem.ch> Received: from erndev5 (erndev5.csem.ch [138.131.170.215]) by exchsrv.csem.ch with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2232.9) id D8C6LBM8; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 18:07:06 +0100 X-Sender: fmm@exchsrv X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0.2 Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 18:10:12 +0100 To: "Mark A. Zottola" From: "Fernando D. Mato Mira" Subject: Re: 100Mb Ethernet for Indigo2 Cc: linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com In-Reply-To: <36BDC583.8DBF4FBD@asc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Precedence: bulk At 10:55 AM 2/7/99 -0600, you wrote: >This is slightly off-topic, so I apologize in advance. As we are porting >LINUX to the Indigo2 to build a Beowulf cluster - we would like to use >100Mb ethernet cards instead of the standard 10Mb. In contacting SGI >about this, we were pointed to Qualix - a company which manufactures >these cards. But the price for this is rather steep - between $700 - >$800 per card! Does anyone on this list know where there might be a >cheaper source for these cards? I can live with 10Mb if I have to, but >it sure would be nice to have that 100Mb communication! A search for `100 ethernet eisa' in cnet gave several cards, 3 of them around $200. Also, Qualix also lists one `for HP' at $495. Fernando D. Mato Mira Real-Time SW Engineering & Networking Advanced Systems Engineering Division CSEM - Centre Suisse d'Electronique et de Microtechnique Jaquet-Droz 1 Email: matomira AT acm DOT org CH-2007 Neuchatel Phone: +41 (32) 720-5152 Switzerland FAX: +41 (32) 720-5720 http://www.csem.ch/ http://www.vrai.com/ http://ligwww.epfl.ch/matomira.html