Although the discussion seems to have ended, I'd like to confirm that a number of 3C905 are also used outside of Sun, namely at our network (several revisions, all 10/100TX).
Some X86 servers have elxl driver, and one SPARC server has a "dgc" driver (opensource "Duane's 3Com 3C90X Ethernet Driver"). These systems are used since last millenium, they "just work" as routers and such, and there is no great need to update their hardware until it "just dies". Considering that many of them are walled off in remote closets (not unlike urban tales like http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=214948&threshold=1&commentsort=0&mode=thread&pid=17460300#17463192 ), it might not be easy to change a NIC anyway. There is occasionally an urge to update their software functionality though; and at the moment I only do really miss VLAN support. Large MTU in particular (i.e. Jumbo frames) is not an issue, although I guess VLAN devices (or drivers) should be capable of accepting 1504 byte frames. A low-prioirty project is underway to replace these routers (some are still at Solaris 8, I confess) with a more modern and capable device, namely a Sun Fire X2200M2 with snv_129 at the moment, but this project is gaining time-slices until completion for over a year now. So I wouldn't be surprised to see these elxl's still working several years from now (perhaps as proxy/DNS infrastructure servers instead of routers). So yes, I'd like to see them supported by the future software stack. Even if no capability changes to the driver would occur - even if it just remains there as it has been for the past many years. For what it's worth, here's my 2 cents :) //Jim -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
