On Saturday, 28 August 1999 at 2:52:12 -0500, Kris Kirby wrote:
> Daniel O'Connor wrote:
>>
>> On 28-Aug-99 Kris Kirby wrote:
>>>> RS232? RS485? VERY cheap and the later is at least moderatly resistant to
>>>> noise
>>> Noise shouldn't be an issue. It's going to be handling "clean" data. By
>>> cheap, I mean $5 a pop or so. I've got a few 3C503s that I feel like
>>> cutting into. I'm going to be bearing the financial end of this project
>>> of mine, so I'm going to save where I can. :-)
>>
>> Well serial ports come free on all new computers ;)
>
> You're right, I should have clarifed. I'm looking to break 128K. I don't
> have any serial ports that I can jumper up to 460 or 230 kbps.
> Additionally, 256K is a nice round number :-).
So what's wrong with PLIP? Last time I used it, I was getting about
50 kB/s out of it.
> I'm not looking to invest in new hardware, and I can save on a bit
> of hardware by letting the NIC worry about the link. The NIC also
> greatly simplies the system. At worst, I'd need a machine with a
> 3C503 and a NE2000. And then I'll probably use dummynet for
> bandwidth limiting over the link so it doesn't get flooded.
>
> I'm going to be building at least three of these units, assuming I get
> the technical issues out of the way. So I'm looking at a cheap (hardware
> and software) way of getting data in and out of a PC with IP support and
> such. It just makes sense in my POV to use a NIC. It's capable of 10
> Mbps and has most of the circuitry for preparing data for transmission
> on it. If you will, it's a ready to use data pump.
I think the technical issues will be your problem.
Greg
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