Subject: Re: FDDI support / Xinet comparision
From: wesley.craig@umich.edu
Date: Tue Jan 25 1994 - 10:35:14 EST
> From: dkelly@etsinc.com (Dwight Kelly)
> To: netatalk-admins@umich.edu
> Can anyone tell me what Sbus FDDI adapters have been tested
> with netatalk-1.3?
We have tried netaalk-1.3 with NPI's sbus FDDI card. We had them
change the driver by a line or so, and the version that they gave us
(about three hours after we asked!) works fine. We are currently
waiting on our networking folks to connect one of our machines to the
campus FDDI backbone, so we can do more extensive testing. We promised
NPI to get back with them once we were confident of the version that
they gave us. I assume they will release it at that time.
NPI's software looks just like an Ethernet interface to netatalk. For
the most part, the FDDITalk specification requires that FDDI behave
like Ethernet, much like the IP FDDI RFC does. If you are shopping
FDDI cards for use with netatalk, you are looking for something that
will act like Ethernet, and in particular, will use the kernel
facilities provided for Ethernet, i.e. those found in sunif/if_subr.c
that use the etherfamilies convention.
:wes
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