[Sunhelp] Ethrenet adapters on sparc5

[Mark Sailer]

The TP and AUI ports go to the same physical controller.
You would need a seperate S-Bus card to get the second
leX port.

Mark

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?
> 
> Thanks again!
> 
> Saul
> 
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