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From: pjh@mccc.uucp (Pete Holsberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: STARLAN on AT&T 3B2/400 and 386
Message-ID: <1989Nov27.224422.16915@mccc.uucp>
Date: 27 Nov 89 22:44:22 GMT
References: <1989Nov18.204304.11937@mccc.uucp> <1989Nov21.134118.11677@nebulus> <1989Nov22.160616.10272@chinet.chi.il.us>
Reply-To: pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg)
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In article <1989Nov22.160616.10272@chinet.chi.il.us> les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes:
=In article <1989Nov21.134118.11677@nebulus> root@nebulus (Dennis S. Breckenridge) writes:
=>root@mccc.uucp (Pete Holsberg) writes:
=>>Is there a need to change the software on the 3B2s?  
=
=>No not at all!
=
=Umm... As far as I know, release 1.x of the starlan drivers (which is
=what he has on the 3b2) will *not* talk to 3.x (which is all that you
=can get for the 386).  They can co-exist on the same wire and there
=is a software-bridge product available, but to use rfs he's going to
=have to upgrade to release 3.2 starlan on the 3B2.
=
=Les Mikesell
=  les@chinet.chi.il.us

Oh, oh!  Will "he" have to upgrade anything else?  Does RFS/Starlan 3.2
run on SVR3.1, for example?

Thanks,
Pete

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