Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!jarthur!usc!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!amdahl!evelyn From: evelyn@uts.amdahl.com (Evelyn Mast) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk Subject: Re: kinetics-phonenet-kinetics Message-ID: Date: 27 Sep 90 00:40:01 GMT References: <9009251038.AA01530@sun.cnuce.cnr.it> Reply-To: evelyn@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Evelyn Mast) Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA Lines: 29 In article <9009251038.AA01530@sun.cnuce.cnr.it> capuano@SUN.CNUCE.CNR.IT ("Vincenzo G. Capuano") writes: >Hi, >we have two buildings at about half a mile away each other. We would like >to connect the two ethernets, using two kinetics and phonenet between them. >In this way we could reach 230kbps between the two ethernets. >The configuration should be: > > | | > | +--------+ +--------+ | > |--|Kinetics|----PhoneNet Cabling----|Kinetics|--| > | +--------+ +--------+ | > | | >Building 1 Building 2 >Ethernet Ethernet > >Is this reasonable ? >What should be the configuration of the two Kinetics ? I know that it is >possible to route IP packets. Is it also possible to get DECNET packets >through in some way ? > >Thanks, >Vincenzo. >--------- >capuano@sun.cnuce.cnr.it Why do this? Why not run ethernet thru the phone cable. You can do that as far as I know. Ethernet is faster than appletalk. Evelyn