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From: jbreeden@netcom.UUCP (John Breeden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: Token Ring vs. Ethernet vs. Novell
Message-ID: <22538@netcom.UUCP>
Date: 2 Feb 91 01:54:32 GMT
References: <43324@ut-emx.uucp> <2154@njitgw.njit.edu> <1991Jan31.201038.12600@uci.com>
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In article <1991Jan31.201038.12600@uci.com> clay@uci.com (Clayton Haapala) writes:
>We have a Novell 2.15 (286) server terminating three networks:  Token Ring, 
>Ethernet, and Starlan.  One of our customers is doing both ARCNet and Token
>Ring.  If paper cup manufacturers came up with IPX drivers, you could use
>those with strings, I image. :-)

Ahh...just curious. What's the difference between "ethernet" and "starlan"?

ethernet: [IEEE 802.3] 1base2, 10base2, 10base5, 10baseT

starlan: [IEEE 802.3] 1base2 (1 mb), 10baseT (10 mb)

Seems to me that starlan IS ethernet!

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