Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!rice!sun-spots-request
From: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Re: Connecting Sun 3/60 Thinwire ethernet -> Thick EThernet
Keywords: Hardware
Message-ID: <2813@brazos.Rice.edu>
Date: 6 Nov 89 03:10:04 GMT
Sender: root@rice.edu
Organization: Sun-Spots
Lines: 14
Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu
X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 187, message 1 of 18

>Anybody know of an easy way to connect a Sun 3/60 with a Thin ether board
>to a Thick ethernet? I know we can get a repeater that will connect a thin
>segment to a thick segment for under $1k, but I was hoping there might be
>a cheaper solution.

The 3/60 supports both thick and thin ethernet, there's a dipswitch that
has to be set on the CPU board.

If for some reason you can't do that you can buy thin/thick adaptors from
people like Cabletron (I'd guess, or moral equivalent) for around $200.

        -Barry Shein
Software Tool & Die, Purveyors to the Trade         | bzs@world.std.com
1330 Beacon St, Brookline, MA 02146, (617) 739-0202 | {xylogics,uunet}world!bzs