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From: RAH@IBM.COM ("Russell A. Heise")
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Token ring to Ethernet?
Message-ID: <121490.152426.heise1@ibm.com>
Date: 14 Dec 90 21:25:48 GMT
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 JJDAVIS@cc.utah.edu writes:

 > How can an IBM token ring LAN connect to an Ethernet broadband for TCP/IP
 > communication?
 >
 > ...
 >
 > IBM's "TCP/IP Tutorial and Technical Overview" has diagrams (pp. 4-4,5-3)
 > showing a token ring LAN and an Ethernet LAN communicating through a 8232,
 > with IP routing taking place via a VM host attached to the 8232.  Seems
 > rather indirect, not to mention expensive!
 >
 > ...
 >
 > Any other possibilites?

 Sure:  try an 8209 LAN Bridge.  This device looks like a PC/AT and can attach
 to both Token-Ring and Ethernet networks.  On the Ethernet side, the bridge
 is transparent.  On the TRN side, devices see it as a bridge to another

Russ Heise, AIX Technical Support, IBM