Re: VAXen, MOPD, and high speed ethernet

[Toby Thain <toby%telegraphics.com.au@localhost>]

On 2016-06-11 1:41 AM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Jun 2016, Charles Dickman wrote:
>
> > I have not had much luck when using a 100baseT server for mopd. The
> > VAXen are just too slow and miss the response.
>
> Amusingly, I installed ULTRIX to a DECstation over the network hanging
> off gigabit switches last weekend without issue.
>
> I've also done the same with a VAX...I once added fibre to the mix...

I'm going to double check the interface speed, but I successfully 
netbooted my MVII off a gigabit switch and a Linux PC with GbE.

I couldn't ascribe any problems to the network. The problems I had were 
all software (ref the linked HOWTO earlier :)

--Toby



> > The best luck I have had is using a 10baseT ethernet adapter in the
> > server and a strictly 10MB link for the VAX.
> >
> > -chuck