[AG-TECH] Adjustments to AGN Specs

[Bob Riddle]

Don,

I'm using the onboard Intel NIC in several of my nodes.  It seems to work 
just fine.


On Wednesday 10 January 2001 09:55, Don Morton wrote:
> 1) Due to unexpected configuration of Display machine motherboard,
>    I'm running 3 projectors plus monitor off of the G200 Quad
>    card.  As it turns out, the G200 won't cooperate with any
>    other video adaptor in the machine unless its a Matrox
>    (and the restriction is probably more specific than just that).
>    So, at this point everything runs off of the G200 Quad.  Naturally,
>    it's working in the sense that I can display on all three
>    projectors plus monitor.  However, I have concerns that it won't
>    handle the load of a real AGN session.  Does anybody have
>    experience with this?  I don't know if I want to leave things
>    the way they are, or if it would be prudent to get a new
>    motherboard with AGP slot, or some other solution.  Money
>    doesn't flow freely here, but an AGN that can't process all
>    these graphics isn't desirable, of course :)
>
> 2) On the video capture machine, there are only two free PCI slots
>    for the WinTV cards.  One slot is taken up by the NIC, yet
>    there is also an onboard 10/100 port.  I understand that the
>    Intel PCI Pro/100+ NIC that's in there does some processing
>    of a level or two of the TCP/IP stack, so I'm wondering if
>    pulling that out and using the onboard 10/100 would critically
>    cut the network capabilities of that machine.  Again, does anybody
>    have experience enough to provide advice?
>
> We're still several weeks away from even getting our high-speed network
> connected in to the AGN, so I can't test this myself.  Which reminds
> me, U. Montana has an opening for a Networking position (I don't know
> exactly at what level) - if anybody's interested, I can find more
> info for you.  In general, low monetary rewards, high peace-of-mind
> rewards :)
>
> Don

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