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Compaq Professional Workstation 6000 and 8000 Reference Guide
Writer: Jean Schuck Project: Compaq Professional Workstation 6000 and 8000 Reference Guide Comments: 270217-002
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COMPAQ CONFIDENTIAL - NEED TO KNOW REQUIRED
Chapter 5
Network Communications
This chapter provides information about networks and the hardware connectors
and software device drivers that allow you to access a network. Once your
network connection is active, you can share resources such as a printer,
exchange information from device to device, and run common software
programs.
Your workstation comes Ethernet network-ready, which means that it has an
integrated network controller and network device drivers on the Compaq
SmartStart for Workstations CD. The integrated Netelligent network controller
is a PCI bus mastering dual speed 10Base-T standard 100Base-TX controller
that will automatically detect network connection speed and adjust accordingly.
The controller supports full duplex Ethernet, allowing two-way transmission
between nodes for up to 20 or 200 Mbits/sec aggregate bandwidth.
NOTE
: Your workstation is also Token Ring Network capable. To connect to
a Token Ring Network, you must install a Token Ring board.
