Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!rutgers!att!mtune!mtunh!mkd
From: mkd@mtunh.ATT.COM (Mark Darby)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: Running a LAN off the existing RJ-45 phone lines
Message-ID: <639@mtunh.ATT.COM>
Date: 12 Oct 88 13:01:27 GMT
References: <1238@umbc3.UMD.EDU> <25288@bu-cs.BU.EDU> <375@ftp.COM>
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In article <375@ftp.COM>, jbvb@ftp.COM (James Van Bokkelen) writes:
> One media Kent didn't mention is Starlan (IEE 10base1, I think).
> It uses 802.3 packet formats at a 1Mb data rate, and there are a
> number of PC network cards which support it (AT&T, MICOM-Interlan,
> Western Digital, Fox Research/DCA/10-Net).  Since most of these cards


Just getting the name right, the correct IEEE type for 1Mb/s 
Starlan is 1BASE5.

Mark K. Darby
AT&T Bell Laboratories
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