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From: george@hyper.lap.upenn.edu (George "Sir Lleb" Zipperlen)
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Subject: Re: Ethernet?
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Date: 18 Sep 89 19:51:17 GMT
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I'm not very hardware knowledgeable, so please be kind...

We have a campus-wide fibre-optical net which is connected in our
lab to a Desta.  The Desta has two thin coax outlets and a multi-pin
plug which connects to a Delni to which we connect all of our Ethernet
gateway machines.  One of the thin coax connectors is connected to
the fibre-optics box, the other is free.

I tried connecting a thin-coax from the NeXt to the Desta, but this
didn't work too well, none of the machines on the local net could
talk to each other until I disconnected the NeXt. (I disconnected 
from the Campus net while trying this.)  I had previously arranged
an internet address for the NeXt, and run NetManager.  (We're using
0.9, booting from hard disk).

Am I doing something wrong in the software configuration, or is there 
another piece of hardware I need to put this all together?  Or is this
something that won't work until 1.0 is released?  Documentation is
still rather sparse.
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