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From: morrison@nucsrl.UUCP (Vance Morrison)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Question: Any good lans with TCP/IP gateway capability?
Message-ID: <3880001@nucsrl.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 25-Sep-87 19:00:17 EDT
Article-I.D.: nucsrl.3880001
Posted: Fri Sep 25 19:00:17 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 27-Sep-87 11:43:55 EDT
Organization: Northwestern U, Evanston IL, USA
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I am trying to get some general information about good LANs and how 
they connect to the larger networks (TCP-IP ethernets).

I work for Northwestern University and we are trying to network together
all the faculty in our engineering building.  The immediate need is to
provide electronic mail, but undoubtedly file transfers, and remote
login sessions will follow.  I figgured that many universities and companies
must have already done this and wanted to pick the brains of the people
who set this up.


The situation we have is:

	1) The offices to be connected all have free twisted pairs
	   back to a phone closet.  Thus networks based on twisted pair
	   are the only feasible solution

	2) IT IS A REQUIREMENT that the network interface with the
	   TCP/IP ethernet type network.  So there MUST be some form
	   of gateway box available that will connect the local network
	   to the world at large.  

	3) A majority of the offices will have IBM like PCs, but some 
	   have Macs or dumb terminals.  So solutions MUST work for 
	   PCs and it would be a plus if it works for Macs, dumb terminals 
	   as well as bigger workstation machines (SUNs).


It seems to me that this would be a fairly common set of requirements,
so hopefully someone out there has a good solution.

If you have any good ideas, please send them directly to me (and if
you want post them).   

				Thanks

					Vance Morrison
					Northwestern University