Heres a good one....

For a hme ethernet interface in Solaris, what does hme stand for ??

Have found something that says "Happy Meal Ethernet" - apparently a code name for the chipset (yeah right) and something else that says "hundred megabiit ethernet" - more believeable.

Anyone else ??

Dave

 

Just found something that said that originally the Sun network interface was known as the "Big Media Access Controller" or the Big MAC interface........

 

I've seen happy meal in various places...

 

My E220Rs have Happy meal NIC cards in them and there are also Big Mac aswell. Stupid but true.

 

So it looks like the fast food naming convention is actually true then.

Dave

 

You guys don't know the half of it..
When I was at Sun they used have loads of amusing codenames.. but I can't talk about it...

 

Dr Evil - we still do !

and yes it stands for "Happy Meal Ethernet"

 

Right seeing as tho i have too much time on my hands, this is the history:

First it was the 10 Mbps Intel 82586 ethernet, on-board (4/100 and 4/200, may not be working properly on 4/400) and VME card (/ie/)

Then came the 10 Mbps AMD 7990 Lance ethernet, on-board (4/300, sun4c, and sun4m) and sbus card (/le/)

Next was the single 100 Mbps be ethernet interface and four 10 Mbps Mace ethernet interfaces, sbus card (/qec/)

Next came the 100 Mbps half-duplex "Big Mac" ethernet, sbus card (/be/) /(1.5)/

Following that was the 100 Mbps full-duplex "Happy Meal" ethernet, sbus card (/hme/)/(1.5)/

And then the quad 100 Mbps full-duplex "Happy Meal" ethernet (four ethernet interfaces), sbus card, (/qfe/) /(1.6)/

So there we have it, as Michael confirmed above.

Do you want fries with that..........

Dave

 

Ok Druddle why have my new Blade 1000 / 2000 and SUNFire V120 servers got eri0 and eri1 in them???

 

Michael - is that a real job title?
So hows life at Sun now? Are you in PS, CTE or a.n.other?

 

and my V480's have got ce(n)'s ....


I'm sure they're just trying to play with my head...


Steve