Xref: utzoo comp.dcom.lans:1271 comp.sys.xerox:189 comp.sys.dec:638 Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!gatech!hubcap!ncrcae!ralph From: ralph@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM (Ralph Hightower) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans,comp.sys.xerox,comp.sys.dec Subject: Need to connect Thin-Net to Fan-Out Unit Message-ID: <3288@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM> Date: 26 Apr 88 20:42:22 GMT Reply-To: ralph@ncrcae.UUCP (Ralph Hightower) Organization: NCR Corp., Engineering & Manufacturing - Columbia, SC Lines: 34 Keywords: thin-net thick-net fan-out I need a way to connect a thin-net lan to a fan-out box. We have two different lans within Quality Assurance, a production lan and a test lan. Each lan within the QA lab has a fan-out unit (Cabletron MT-800) connected to a transceiver (BICC 1112-X) on the thick ethernet cable. The thin-net lan is currently connected to the end of the thick ethernet cable on the test lan. Most NCR TOWER's that need to be switched between the test lan and the production lan are attached to the fan-out box so we can switch to the other fan-out box when we need to perform testing or production items. Is there any equipment that will allow me to attach a thin-net lan to the fanout unit, so I can switch between the production net and the test net easily? To comp.sys.dec: Will the DEMPR (ThinWire Ethernet Multiport Repeater) allow me to connect the thin-net lan to the Cabletron MT-800 fanout box? Is there anything else that could solve my purpose? To comp.sys.xerox: I included you because Xerox is the originator of Ethernet. I omitted comp.sys.intel because probably most discussion going on there is the merit's of the '386 vs. '030 (although Intel is part of the Ethernet trilogy). Please edit the newsgroups file to comp.dcom.lans. I visit that group more often than comp.sys.xerox.or.dec. -- ralph@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM NCR Corp., Engineering & Manufacturing - Columbia, SC Home of THE USC! South Carolina had a University 49 years before California was a state.