100Mb Ethernet for Indigo2

100Mb Ethernet for Indigo2

[Mark A. Zottola]

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!

Again, my apologies if this is too off-topic for this group.
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Re: 100Mb Ethernet for Indigo2

[Fernando D. Mato Mira]

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.


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