[rescue] Sun stuff - free?

[Charles Monett]

der Mouse wrote:
>> Given the age - those could be BigMAC (BE) cards.  The driver was
>> dropped in Solaris 7 and newer.
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> Doesn't matter to me; I'm running NetBSD, not Solaris.
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>> I had an old SS1000 with one of those little devils.
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>> ...or they could be early Happy Meals.
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> I've got an hme or two, but I also have enough machines that could
> benefit from >10Mbit that it'd be worth covering shipping to me to get
> these, even if they're be rather than hme.  (I have few-to-no Sbus
> machines capable of filling a 100Mbit pipe, but a nontrivial number
> that find 10Mbit limiting.)
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Agreed on the "filling the 100Mbit pipe" comment.  Even a well-stocked 
SS5/170 or a middle-of-the-road Ultra 2/300 will have issues(used both 
in high-traffic network filtering).  They're good as a workstation or a 
lightly loaded server, but don't try to run a ton of traffic on them.

Replaced those with something more capable and noticed a good sized jump 
in speed with the same underlying infrastructure.