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From: coleman@sask.UUCP (Geoff Coleman @ College of Engineering)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: Re: Cheapernet query
Message-ID: <724@sask.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 13-May-87 15:35:42 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 13 15:35:42 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 16-May-87 07:27:32 EDT
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> In article <351@dcl-csvax.comp.lancs.ac.uk> david@comp.lancs.ac.uk (David Coffield) writes:
>>Suppose some Sun-3s were linked via a Cheapernet and the Cheapernet
>>was to be connected to an ordinary Ethernet, linking other Suns and
>>Vaxes (so it's all TCP-IP based). What do we get in the way of a connector
>>to link the Cheapernet to the Ethernet so it all looks like one net?

3-COM sell a barrell connector to connect thin wire ethernet to thick wire.
I can't remeber the part number off hand. Mind you we have had one back ordered
for the better part of a year. I can't see why it's such a hard part to 
obtain.


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