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From: tom@wcc.oz (Tom Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: kinetics-phonenet-kinetics
Message-ID: <1066@wcc.oz>
Date: 28 Sep 90 08:41:42 GMT
References: <9009251038.AA01530@sun.cnuce.cnr.it> <2700029E.3D37@intercon.com>
Organization: Webster Computer, Melbourne, Australia
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In article <2700029E.3D37@intercon.com>, kdb@macaw.intercon.com (Kurt Baumann) writes:
> 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 problem that you will run into is there is an absolute length of the
> PhoneNet cabling.  You would need to talk to Farallon about this though.

PhoneNet quotes 4000' max. Should be fine. It would be worth getting
someone to put a CRO (scope) on to the line to check out what the
signal looks like. Can the FP route live IP packets (not just
IP-in-AppleTalk) through LocalTalk, like from a Unix machine on one
Ethernet to a Unix machine on the other? What is the set-up that
allows this?

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Tom Evans  tom@wcc.oz.au  
Webster Computer Corp P/L, 1270 Ferntree Gully Rd Scoresby, Melbourne 3179
Victoria, Australia 61-3-764-1100  FAX ...764-1179