Network Configuration: Devices Overview

Notes:

1. PTP means a Point-to-Point network link
2. Regular ISA cards can't be detected by hwinfo, so there's no way to download the hwinfo log. It's only possible for some ISA PnP cards.
3. # means missing hwinfo log

Description:

• ARCnet /usr/src/linux/Documentation/networking/arcnet.txt /usr/src/linux/Documentation/networking/arcnet-hardware.txt
• CLAW
• CTC Channel-To-Channel
• dummy /usr/src/linux/drivers/net/dummy.c
• DecNet /usr/src/linux/Documentation/networking/decnet.txt
• Escon Enteprise System CONnector (something like a mixture of SCSI and Ethernet - its a channel, but can carry network traffic)
• Ethernet
• FDDI
• HSI Hipersockets
• IUCV Inter User Communication Vehicle (means: DMA based network pipe between Virtual Machine instances (like vmware) on an s390)
• Myrinet http://www.myri.com
• PLIP Parallel Line IP /usr/src/linux/Documentation/networking/PLIP.txt
• QETH
• SCI http://www.scizzl.com/WhatIsSCI.html http://www.dolphinics.com/sci/index.html
• Token-Ring
• Wireless