uPort 'n' Excelan 'n' networking

[Steve Lancaster]

In article <1857 at sialis.mn.org>, rjg at sialis.mn.org (Robert J. Granvin) writes:
+ Sitting at work, running Microport Unix on a '286 box, and now needing
+ to install some real networking, makes me wonder about some things...
+ 
+ Microport seems to be the only software manufacturer on the planet who
+ will offer TCP/IP networking tools for a '286 machine with an Excelan
+ Ethernet board.
+ 
+ However, since the investment being talked about is in excess of
+ $1,000, most of that going to Microport, I would like to find out if
+ anyone has actually done this, and what their results were, especially
+ in the areas of throughput and reliability.
+ 
+ Any comments or thoughts greatly appreciated...

This works just fine. I've been running this at work for several months,
and have had no significant problems with the tcp-ip package. We use it as
a name-time server. It also in its spare time collects statistics from our
Micom data switch.