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From: ed@mtxinu.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: Multiple Tranciever Interface?
Message-ID: <330@mtxinu.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 1-Apr-87 20:02:51 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr  1 20:02:51 1987
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Reply-To: ed@mtxinu.UUCP (Ed Gould)
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>Can anyone give a synopsis of multiple tranciever interfaces to
>ethernet?  Micom/Interlan has announce one but it is not available till
>August!  Can one use the DEC DELNI with generic ethernet (Sun's, Pyramid)?

Fanout boxes, as they're often called, are available from DEC (as you've
noted), TCL, Excelan, and probably others.  The same constraints apply
as for mixing controllers with transceivers - that Ethernet 1 controllers
match to E1 transcehvers; E2 controllers to E2 transceivers, and 802.3
to 802.3.  (Actually, mix and match often works, but I never count
on it.)

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