Sun Microsystems SunFastEthernet Adapte - Manual (Page 16)

1-2 SunFastEthernet Adapter User Guide—November 1994
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The SunFastEthernet™ Adapter card is a dual mode high speed ethernet SBus
card that can operate at either 10 or 100Mbps. The card provides the Media
Access Control (MAC) function for either a 10 or 100Mbps CSMA/CD protocol
based network interface conforming to IEEE 802.3 and the Ethernet
specification.
1. Fully complies with the following standards:
a. ANSI/IEEE std 802.3 CSMA/CD MAC layer specification
i. Supports 10Base-T (twisted-pair) Ethernet. AUI (thicknet) and Coax
(thinnet) can be supported via external third-party adapter boxes
ii. 10/100 Mbit per second transfer rate
b. SBus specification, Rev B.0
i. Single-wide SBus card
ii. Fully operational across all SBus clock ranges (12.5 - 25 Mhz)
iii. Supports parity
iv. Supports 16/32/64 byte burst
c. Fast Ethernet Alliance 100Base-X media specification
d. Fast Ethernet Alliance Reconciliation Sublayer and Media Independent
Interface specifications