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From: karl@lvs.Eng.Sun.COM (Karl Auerbach)
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Subject: Re: Lattisnet / 10base-T
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Date: 4 Feb 91 18:17:17 GMT
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>To give you a bit more information, 3xxx equipment is 10baseT. 2xxx is not.
>1xxx may be depending on the module involved. If 505 transceivers are used,
>it's not 10baseT. If 508s are used, then it is 10baseT.

The above is only partially correct.

Synoptics, like many of the companies who make concentrator boxes,
builds a chassis in which a customer may place a variety of different
cards.  The Synoptics 3000 series concentrator can hold boards which
are 10-Base-T complient, older Synoptics proprietary Ethernet over UTP
complient, token ring complient, act as a remote bridge, etc.  So
simply specifying the concentrator model (e.g. S3xxx) is not
sufficient.

				--karl--