Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!samsung!caen!ox.com!msen.com!emv From: emv@msen.com (Ed Vielmetti) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans Subject: Re: Bridges with telephone lower layers Message-ID: Date: 1 Jun 91 03:40:55 GMT References: <91137.165409UH2@psuvm.psu.edu> Sender: usenet@ox.com (Usenet News Administrator) Organization: MSEN, Inc. Ann Arbor MI Lines: 27 In-Reply-To: bob@MorningStar.Com's message of 31 May 91 15:44:15 GMT How hard is it to bridge two LANs with a bridge that uses an intermittant telephone link... ...Get yourself a pair of NetBlazers... I didn't know that the NetBlazer already implemented RFC1220? The NetBlazer doesn't do RFC1220, which is Point-to-Point Protocol Extensions for Bridging This document defines an extension of the Internet Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) described in RFC 1171, targeting the use of Point-to- Point lines for Remote Bridging. It is a product of the Point-to- Point Protocol Extensions Working Group of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). However, there is another netblazer-like box which has support for some goofy proprietary protocols commonly found in the dos world, which might address the first user's problems. The NetBlazer also doesn't negotiate binary telnets right, which is why ours is still an "evaluation" unit rather than a system in production :-(. --Ed