On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Todd wrote: > i'm not super familiar with the netgear versions of the cards but here's > the basic deal: alteon makes the acenic cards based on the tigon (and now > tigon2) chipset that they bought from essential communications in > albuquerque. the tigon chipset is then licensed to netgear and 3com (and > one other vendor, i think). You might have that a little wrong. I wrote a driver for the Ess-Com boards in early 1998, just before they dropped the product. There seemed to be some bad blood between Ess-Com and Alteon about who cribbed which design elements from whom, and what the design team took with them when they left. I still have two of Ess-Com cards on my Gig-E rack. Ess-Com was in the HIPPI adapter business, and both the hardware and firmware looked much like the HIPPI boards. Ess-Com decided that Gig-E wouldn't have the margins they were used to with HIPPI, and dropped out of the Ethernet business. Donald Becker becker@scyld.com Scyld Computing Corporation http://www.scyld.com 410 Severn Ave. Suite 210 Beowulf Clusters / Linux Installations Annapolis MD 21403 - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
