[tech] searching for DEC-compatible network cards

Cameron Patrick cameron at ucc.asn.au
Sat Jul 2 17:34:10 WST 2005


Davyd Madeley wrote:

> One idea is to netboot them and run them in some sort of clustered
> environment, however this requires network cards that are compatible
> with netbooting from SRM.

I believe that pretty much means original (DECchip) Tulips.

> Anyone who might have some cards lying around is encouraged to donate or
> sell them to the UCC. GigE cards would be perfect, but I'm not sure what
> GigE cards have SRM support and as we know, beggers can't be choosers.

My understanding is that you'd be lucky to get SRM happy with 100mbit.

Another option (perhaps easier?) would be to drop in leftover drives
to boot the kernel off and $generic GigE cards for everything else.

Cameron.




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