[SunRescue] Sun 3/50 and SLC

[Maarten Deen]

Sam Creasey:
> On Mon, 8 May 2000, Maarten Deen wrote:
> 
> > Liam Stewart:
> > 
> > > hooked up to my home LAN, but the ethernet on it seems to be quite flaky;
> > > there's massive packet loss. I've ruled out the tranciever, interference,
> > > and the hub so the problem has come down to the actual ethernet hardware
> > > in the box unless I've missed something. Is there way to fix/replace it?
> > 
> > Sun 3 ethernet is very poor at best. Packet loss probably is not good even
> > by sun3 standards, but otherwise, expet 300kB/sec at maximum.
> > 
> > Have you tried to hook it up to thinwire using the BNC connector?
> 
> Erm, what drivers/OS are you assuming?
> 
> FTP'ing a file to my linux-running sun3 shows:
> 8640054 bytes received in 14.2 secs (6e+02 Kbytes/sec)

Hmm, in my memory I thought the hardware was bad. Could be sun's ie driver
though.
 
Maarten