Fast Ethernet PCI Adapter Installation and User's Guide
2 Sun Quad FastEthernet PCI Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • August 1997
FIGURE 1-2 Sun Quad FastEthernet PCI adapter Back Panel
Features
This PCI adapter offers the following features:
■ Fully complies with the ANSI/IEEE std. 802.3 CSMA/CD physical layer
specification
■ Four Switchable 10BASE-T/100BASE-TX Ethernet channels with auto
negotiation. Conforms to IEEE 802.3u Ethernet standard
■ Provides operations of up to 100 meters of twisted-pair without use of
repeaters
■ Four independent Ethernet channels run at either 10 Mbps or 100 Mbps
■ Supports half-duplex or full-duplex operation modes
■ Multiple 48-bit IEEE 802.3 style media access control (MAC) identifiers, one for
each channel
■ Link integrity LED for each channel
LEDs
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Ethernet channels