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41 What do I need to hook up my Amiga 2,3, or 4000 to ethernet? |
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This article is from the Amiga Networking FAQ, by Richard Norman with numerous contributions by others.
If the following sounds like geek 8-)
then try the Generic (G) section.
Also you can try the book store for a variety of books on the subject including
"Connect your Amiga!" by Dale Larson of IAM . They can go into a lot more detail
than an FAQ.
You basically have two choices: a direct connection which requires a ethernet card
or a much slower remote connection via the serial port. An ethernet card is also
referred to as an ethernet adapter, an ethernet controller, or as a network
interface card. One reason it is called a network interface card is that there are
other types of networks out there besides ethernet ( ARCNET for example).
Ethernet is just extremely popular.
There are several cards to choose from and they support different ethernet cable
types. See the generic section for a description of cable types. See the product
specs section to see which cards support which cables.
In addition to the card you will need a protocol to communicate to other hosts or
nodes. See a description of protocols in the generic section. The protocols all
require configuration such as an address which you should get from your network
administrator or service provider.
Last but not least you will need some network applications to use over your
network link. Telnet and FTP usually come with the TCP/IP protocol, but there are
many others available.
In summary, you will need: 1) NIC 2) Protocol 3) Application.
Ethernet cards:
The A2065 was by Commodore Business Machines.
The A4066 is by Ameristar supersedes the A2065 card.
The LAN Rover was by ASDG and is also called the EB920.
The Hydra is by Hydra Systems
The Ariadne is by Village Tronic
Also cheap PC ethernet cards can be used with GG2 bus+ card from
Software Results Enterprises .
The Ariadne is a hybrid card which includes both ethernet and parallel ports on
the same card.
All of these cards are full size and most are SANA II compatible.
Protocol:
All these cards can be used with protocol software such as
TCP-IP:
AmiTCP by NSDi
I-NET 225 by Interworks
AmigaNOS
AS225 was by CBM
Other:
TSSnet DECnet software by Thunder Ridge, Inc. ,
Novell Netware client by Oxxi
Amiga to Amiga:
ENLAN-DFS
Envoy
DNET (also does Amiga to Unix)
SAMBA (also does Amiga to Unix or PC)
Resource Management Force
has a zorro II card called QuickNet which uses
thin ethernet, and special Amiga to Amiga software.
Serial port:
The serial port offers a much slower, but much cheaper way to build a network. By
using a high speed modem connection to an Internet Service Provider you can use
your Amiga serial port to become a full fledge node on the Internet. The internet
requires the TCP-IP protocol and you will need either SLIP or PPP to drive
the serial port. SLIP comes with AmiTCP and PPP.device is available on Aminet.
If you plan on tying several machines to the internet over a single SLIP or PPP
line, you will HAVE to coordinate it with your service provider, otherwise only
one machine will be seen. Unless of course you are clever like Randall Lasini and
figure out a way around it.
Other types of networks can also be supported via the serial port such as DECnet .
Again the tradeoff being giving up speed for distance and cost.
No place to dial into? You can usually find a book on the Internet at a bookstore
that lists the major providers, but your local user groups and BBS users can
provide good insight into which are the best or cheapest.
Continue to:
amiga, pc, hardware, sotware, networking
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