1. Are there any Sbus Gigabit Ethernet (copper) cards around? I only see
the fiber channel ones.

2. Also can someone recommend any gigabit Ethernet (copper interface)
cards for the Ultra 80? Preferably with multiple interfaces.

Will any PCI Gb Enet card do here?

Thanks

DJH wrote:
>
> 2. Also can someone recommend any gigabit Ethernet (copper interface)
> cards for the Ultra 80? Preferably with multiple interfaces.
>
> Will any PCI Gb Enet card do here?
>
Should do, I've used Reaktek cards on PCI Sparc systems (assuming
Solaris 10 or later).

--
Ian Collins.

[DJH]:
>
> 1. Are there any Sbus Gigabit Ethernet (copper) cards around? I
> only see the fiber channel ones.

remember normal SBus is only 25 MHz and 32 bits, which is 800 Mbps.
Wikipedia says they doubled the clock on UltraSPARC computers, but not
many were made with SBus (only the Ultra 1 and 2, I think). also, Sun
used to say as a rule of thumb that you needed 1 MHz CPU to serve 1
Mbps of data on your network, and the SBus servers simply don't run at
the speeds required to make gigabit meaningful.

with regards to a copper version -- keep in mind that the Ultra 1 was
launched in 1995, and gigabit over copper wasn't standardised until
1999. I'm actually surprised that there is a fiber card at all.
(fibre channel would be slightly less surprising since that is an
older standard).
--
Kjetil T.

SBus is 64 bit capable.

Hi,

DJH wrote:
> 1. Are there any Sbus Gigabit Ethernet (copper) cards around? I only see
> the fiber channel ones.
>
> 2. Also can someone recommend any gigabit Ethernet (copper interface)
> cards for the Ultra 80? Preferably with multiple interfaces.
Suns current ones should do fine in a U80.

>
> Will any PCI Gb Enet card do here?
>
No., you need one with a driver one.


/michael