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From: cmilono@netcom.COM (Carlo Milono)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans,comp.sys.hp,comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: HP Starlan 10 and 10BaseT
Message-ID: <28371@netcom.COM>
Date: 15 Mar 91 04:55:31 GMT
References: <40106@cup.portal.com>
Organization: Netcom - Somewhere in the S.F. Bay Area
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In article <40106@cup.portal.com> AMillar@cup.portal.com (Alan DI Millar) writes:
>Hi-
>
>    I have recently inherited some HP Starlan 10 equipment, with little
>documentation. (stuff deleted)
>
>    Does anyone have more information on the HP Starlan 10 equipment?  I'm
>interested in knowing if this is the same as the older AT&T Starlan
>hardware.  I remember reading somewhere that some early 10BaseT equipment
>can work with the final standard, if it has the option to disable a
>particular feature (link integrity?).  If so, how about this stuff?
>Also, anyone know of a packet driver for these cards?
>
Thank god for standards.  Both H-P, whose Pat Thaler chaired the IEEE,
and AT&T waited until the 10BaseT standard was at least stable before
putting equipment on the market.  Early Synoptics and Cabletron stuff
won't work with anything else at the twisted-pair level...if you got
some, you can interconnect with the AUI port.  

Link Integrity was the final draft inclusion, it being the bone of 
contention.  I don't believe that H-P put out anything that wouldn't
interoperate with the Draft 9 standard (LI excluded)...and neither
did AT&T...so I am confident you can interconnect those two vendor's
stuff.

If I'm wrong...well, Pat will correct me!

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