[SunHELP] SBus Serial Cards

[Steve Wingate]

You can find quad port 10Mb/s NICs on ebay for $50-75. There are also
quad port fast ethernet available. Another option is a Sunswift card
which has a single fast ethernet interface plus a fast-wide scsi port. On
a side note, OpenBSD doesn't support dual processor systems, so you may
want to consider running ipfilter on Solaris, unless you want to trade the 2nd cpu
for a quad port NIC.
I use a Pentium 200mmx for my OpenBSD firewall and a dual SM61 Sparc 20 as
my dedicated webserver.


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OpenBSD 2.9 i386
10:57PM  up 5 days,  2:46, 1 user, load averages: 0.25, 0.12, 0.09
Memory: Real: 7664K/24M act/tot  Free: 99M  Swap: 4K/128M used/tot
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On Sun, 25 Nov 2001, Jon Still wrote:

> Hey folks,
>
> I've got a Sparc20 here (128MB RAM, Dual SM71s) and I'd like to get it
> going decently as an OpenBSD firewall.  I'd like to add another 2 network
> ports to it (other than the onboard le0) and also a faster async serial
> port so I can get higher data rates than 38.4Kbps.
>
> Can anyone recommend SBus cards that will do this for me?  Secondly can
> anyone recommend a UK supplier for secondhand Sun kit?
>
> Cheers,
> Jon.
>
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