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From: phil@amdcad.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: "Remote" Ethernets?
Message-ID: <16313@amdcad.AMD.COM>
Date: Wed, 22-Apr-87 17:28:05 EST
Article-I.D.: amdcad.16313
Posted: Wed Apr 22 17:28:05 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 24-Apr-87 03:45:41 EST
References: <7381@mordor.s1.gov> <4192@caip.RUTGERS.EDU>
Reply-To: phil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai)
Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, Ca.
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In article <4192@caip.RUTGERS.EDU> scarter@caip.rutgers.edu (Stephen M. Carter) writes:
-In article <7381@mordor.s1.gov> kiessig@mordor.s1.gov (Rick Kiessig) writes:
->Has anyone heard of a device which might be used to allow two
->remote ethernets to talk to one another?  About all I can think
->of is using serial lines.  Is there anything better?  The LANs
->are about 50 miles apart, separated by hills.  Thanks,
-
-We use T1.  Other choices are 9.6-56kb line(s).  Contact Cisco or Bridge
-(or us) for more info.  We use cisco gateways for our T1 connections.

We bought a bunch of Bridge Comm GS-3 TCP/IP internet routers and
we're sorry we did. For example, they claim to be TCP/IP but don't
implement ICMP. Let's not even mention network management.  Or boxes
which crashed several times a day.  I suggest you look at Cisco or
Proteon. I also know Ungerman Bass was working on a router product,
although they didn't seem to use the same words as the rest of the
world, it seemed to do the things I would expect from a router.  If
you want a bridge (lower case b), Translan has some interesting
products also. They were working on using an Amiga as a network
management console. Might be fun and sexy, etc. 

-- 
Phil Ngai, {ucbvax,decwrl,allegra}!amdcad!phil or amdcad!phil@decwrl.dec.com