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From: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Re: Connecting Sun 3/60 Thinwire ethernet -> Thick EThernet
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Date: 7 Nov 89 18:29:52 GMT
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X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 191, message 1 of 9

In article <2640@brazos.Rice.edu> wugate!wuarchive!sharkey!hfhrv!brian@uunet.uu.net (Brian A. Wolfe) writes:
>X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 180, message 7 of 15
>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.

3/60's support both thin and thick ethernet on the CPU board. (So do
3/50's) The new models don't (I wish they did, but that's another flame).

To enable one port or another, there is a switch on the CPU board. On a
3/60, it is labeled EXT/UR and is a single position on the dipswitch that
also sets memory size.  On the 3/50, there is a dipswitch, and ALL
switches must be one way or another.

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