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From: jbreeden@netcom.UUCP (John Breeden)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: Synoptics
Message-ID: <12897@netcom.UUCP>
Date: 7 Jun 90 23:56:24 GMT
References: <9006071244.AA14949@vax.ftp.com>
Organization: NetCom- The Bay Area's Public Access Unix System {408 241-9760 guest}
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In article <9006071244.AA14949@vax.ftp.com> fks@VAX.FTP.COM (Frances Selkirk) writes:
>
>	
>To the best of our knowledge, there is no packet driver for Synoptics
>cards. No one has registered a type for one, and a person I spoke to
>at Synoptics did not know of any, nor of any plans to write one. 
>	
>								-Frances
>	

The 3Com 3C503/TP (twisted pair) can be configured for either Synoptic's
propriatory protocol (Lattisnet) or IEEE 10baseT Draft10 and it's supported
via the packet drivers (3c503.com).



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