Dan Foster <usenet@evilphb.org> wrote in message news:<slrnc7dr3a.rab.usenet@gaia.roc2.gblx.net>...
> In article <Xns94C6CC28A5783maartenkreugeryahooc@194.109.133. 20>, Maarten Kreuger <maarten_kreuger@jahoe.kom> wrote:
> >> and to go a final round, using the name that is part of the SP
> >> ethernet will haev a faster connection?
> > SP ethernet is usually a 10Mbit coaxial ethernet, your regular network is
> > usually 100mbit, so that would be faster. You can check that with:
> > splstdata -a
>
> On newer generations of SP, the cwnet ethernet is 100baseT. We had the
> old and new generation machines; they went to 10 then 100baseT not too
> long after the original SP introduction which had 10base2 (coaxial,
> thinnet) ethernet.
>
> We got rid of our first generation (mid-1990s) SP nodes with only
> 10base2 long ago; all nodes since then has either 10 or 100baseT; all of
> our ~60 nodes has built-in 100baseT for cwnet.
>
> (And prior to the release of the original SP, the cwnet interface was
> actually Token Ring in the Poughkeepsie -- P'ok -- SP dev labs, but I
> think they changed to 10base2 around the time of the actual public
> release?)
>
> -Dan


hi, i issued splstdata -a and got a list of switch connections? and i
got the below entries with different net address.

1) SP_Switch_MX NA
2) RS/6000_SP_S NA
3) tp
4) fibre