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From: haas%basset.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Walt Haas)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: Cost-effective method of connecting PC's to existing TCP/IP LAN
Message-ID: <1990Oct17.080647.22785@hellgate.utah.edu>
Date: 17 Oct 90 14:06:47 GMT
References: <1990Oct16.212015.11791@seachg.uucp>
Organization: University of Utah CS Dept
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In article <1990Oct16.212015.11791@seachg.uucp> jalsop@seachg.UUCP (John Alsop) writes:
>We have a client with a small existing thin-net TCP/IP network.  He wishes
>to connect some existing PC's in another part of the company to this
>network.
>
>The PC's (up to 20 of them) are scattered in individual offices, so there
>is a strong preference for a solution using twisted pair wiring.

We do exactly this with the Western Digital 10BASE-T card and the Hughes
LAN Systems multi-protocol stack.  It supports all the usual TCP/IP
protocols and LAT and Novell too.  For a 10BASE-T hub we have been buying
the AT&T Starlan-10 product but anything that conforms to the standard
should work.  We interface to thinnet by hanging a thinnet transceiver off
the AUI plug of the Starlan hub.

-- Walt Haas    haas@ski.utah.edu