[Sunhelp] Ethrenet adapters on sparc5

[Paul Khoury]

On Wed, 22 Dec 1999 15:11:57 -0500 (EST), sjf8 at cornell.edu wrote:

>Hello Experts,
>
>I am looking to put together a firewall for a small internal network.  I was
>planning on using a sparc 5-85 to do the trick, and have started looking for
>an extra TP ethernet card to act as the external controller.  However, in
>the interest of saving money, I looked at the back of my sparc5 and saw
>that there are really two ethernet interfaces on the mainboard...one TP and
>one AUI, right?  Are these two interfaces connected to two seperate internal
>controllers?  I.e. if I buy an AUI to TP tranceiver will I have the setup I
>am looking for with two SEPERATE ethernet controllers?  Or will I just have
>two sockets to the same internal card?
>
Typically, on both PCs, SPARCS, and other CISC/RISC boxes, it's usually
different interfaces for the same network adapter.  Basically one or the other.
I think in your case you'd still have to use an SBus card for another adapter.

Paul