Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!amdcad!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!BROWNVM.BITNET!AD From: AD@BROWNVM.BITNET (Arif Diwan) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: Ethernet Bridge Message-ID: <8710270119.AA15734@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Mon, 26-Oct-87 17:48:27 EST Article-I.D.: ucbvax.8710270119.AA15734 Posted: Mon Oct 26 17:48:27 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 29-Oct-87 04:57:34 EST References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 13 I am in the process of setting up an IBM RT/PC running AIX 2.1.2 as a "bridge" between 2 ethernets. The setup I have is a local Ethernet with TCL multiport transceivers as hubs. Each hub supports 8 hosts, but these hubs can be cascaded together to increase this number. Also, you can interface a cascade with an existing IEEE 802.3 spec coax hookup with an adapter. We also have Applitek boxes which connect the lans to a campus-wide network via a broadband backbone. These Applitek boxes filter out "directed" packets as opposed to broadcast packets as well as allow a simple interface to a 10Mbit per second broadband channel. We also have Sun and MicroVaxs which are being used as bridges. We are also planning to use PS/2 Model 80 to bridge PCNET and Ethernet lans. We have also bridged one AppleTalk network ethernet using a Kinetics box. Possibilities are endless.