| Title: | FDDI - The Next Generation |
| Moderator: | NETCAD::STEFANI |
| Created: | Thu Apr 27 1989 |
| Last Modified: | Thu Jun 05 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 2259 |
| Total number of notes: | 8590 |
I am looking for help with a couple of questions raised by a customer
who is building a Network Control Station based on an Alpha 3000/600S
with multiple network connections including FDDI. This system will need
to monitor all Network traffic therefore "promiscuous mode" on the FDDI
is required. Is this supported on the DEFTA with OVMS and how is it set
up ??
The system also has to monitor VME based FDDI cards and for some reason
the customer needs to know what ver of MAC we support and if possible
what chip set we use, is it proprietry or from AMD ???
Finally if using TCP/IP they achieve thru puts of 50Mbs will the Alpha
processor be able to handle this amount of data as well as doing other
tasks ???
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| 1399.1 | STAR::STOCKDALE | Wed Jul 13 1994 10:50 | 8 | ||
>> to monitor all Network traffic therefore "promiscuous mode" on the FDDI >> is required. Is this supported on the DEFTA with OVMS and how is it set >> up ?? Yes. The LAN chapter in the I/O User's Guide describes how to turn on promiscuous mode for a device using QIO. - Dick | |||||
| 1399.2 | koning.lkg.dec.com::koning | Paul Koning, B-16504 | Wed Jul 13 1994 18:18 | 10 | |
All our adapters support promiscuous mode (as do all the Ethernet adapters). Alphas should have no trouble at all keeping up with 50 Mb TCP traffic. Our adapters use our own MAC design, which is also the one sold by Motorola. Not that it makes any difference; they should all conform to the FDDI standard... paul | |||||