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From: drake@drake.almaden.ibm.com
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Subject: Re: Token ring to Ethernet?
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Date: 6 Sep 90 06:07:13 GMT
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In article <90473@cc.utah.edu> JJDAVIS@cc.utah.edu writes:
>How can an IBM token ring LAN connect to an Ethernet broadband for TCP/IP
>communication?
>
>There is some interest in connecting several RISC/6000s together in a LAN
>with token ring, but the LAN will also need to connect to the campus Ethernet
>broadband.  The RISC/6000s will use the Internet protocol suite.

Simplest is to put an Ethernet card and a Token Ring card in one of the
RISC System/6000s.  The 6000 will automagically act as an IP router.  
Have all the machines on one net point to that 6000 as their route to
the other net, and vice versa.  So, through the magic of TCP/IP, everyone
will be completely unaware of what machines are on which network.


Sam Drake / IBM Almaden Research Center 
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