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From: j_rodin@hpfcso.HP.COM (Jon Rodin)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: LU 6.2
Message-ID: <7260004@hpfcso.HP.COM>
Date: 6 Dec 90 14:34:35 GMT
References: <1990Nov30.021606.19174@midway.uchicago.edu>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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>      o  Several other vendors provide a Gateway solution which
>	 connects to the IBM host using SNA over Token Ring,
>	 with the rest of the PC's using Netbios to talk to the
>	 Gateway...  Throughput is lower, but in most instances
>	 quite acceptable.   Try 3COM, etc...    Most of these
>	 will work with DOS, MS-DOS, or MS-OS2.   

Most vendors of PC SNA emulation products (Attachmate, DCA, etc.) provide direct
PC <-> IBM host connectivity via token ring without requiring a gateway.  If
the PCs are on the token ring there is no reason to stick a gateway in between
the PC and the host.

Throughput for a tr attached PC is roughly equivalent to a coax attached PC.

Jon
j_rodin@cnd.hp.com