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From: dag@fciva.FRANKCAP.COM (Daniel A. Graifer)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: WAN Bridge/Router over Fractional T1 (64K)
Message-ID: <597@fciva.FRANKCAP.COM>
Date: 10 Apr 91 15:15:39 GMT
Article-I.D.: fciva.597
References: <1991Mar27.152925.8267@exloghou.portal.com> <1991Mar30.185821.7385@lut.ac.uk> <11659@cpoint.clearpoint.com>
Reply-To: dag@fciva.UUCP (Daniel A. Graifer)
Organization: Coastal Capital Funding Corp., McLean, VA
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We are using a pair of CrossCom ILAN-1 (TM) to bridge the ethernets in our
Northern Virginia and Orange County, S. Calif. offices.  Each unit has four
slots which will accept any mix of T1, Fractional T1, ethernet and token ring
cards.  We've had no problems with the units, and we plan to bridge another
office later this summer: Just drop another card in one of the units.

We went this way because when we bought them, we thought we might be bridging
a Token-Ring based office, but that project collapsed.  They still seem to be
excellent units.  We've had no problems.  The biggest problem was getting
MCI/PacTel/C&PTel to get their act together on the line.  It didn't help that
one of our DSUs was DOA.

If you do mix Ethernet and Token ring, remember that a bridge provides a 
connection at MAC (Data Link) Layer.  Getting Network Layer datagrams 
originally designed for the other media into your hosts is another matter.

CrossCom can be reached at 1-800-388-1200 or 1-508-481-4060.

Disclaimer: We have no connection to CrossCom except as satisfied customers.
Oh, we bought our units through Glasgal (a big comm equip. distributor).

Dan
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Daniel A. Graifer			Coastal Capital Funding Corp.
Sr. Vice President, Financial Systems	7900 Westpark Dr. Suite A-130
(703)821-3244				McLean, VA  22102
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