[Info-vax] Additional ethernet (e.g. 100BASE-TX) NIC for Multia/UDB?

[Steven Schweda]

   I know nothing, but if you can't easily get a DE500-BA,
and if your SYS$SYSTEM:SYS$CONFIG.DAT mentions any of the
"Intel 8255x LOM (Fast Ethernet)" chips, then I'd look at my
local PC junk store for a card with one of those chips on it.
I think that I used DE500-BA cards in my oldest junk (AlpSta
200 4/233) systems, but, before I switched over to gigabit
cards, I had used Intel-chip cards in my newer junk (XP1000).
One with an empty flash memory chip socket says "COMPAQ
NETELLIGENT" "10/100 TX PCI Intel UTP Controller".  One with
a soldered-in flash memory chip says "COMPAQ NC3121".  Both
use an SB82558B chip.  I also had a two-port (expandable to
four?) COMPAQ card of some kind, with two of those chips on
it.  As I recall, Tru64 didn't complain, either.

   If anything works in that slot.