Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!amdcad!ames!pacbell!pbseps!rdp
From: rdp@pbseps.UUCP (Richard Perlman)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Cheap Bridge wanted...
Message-ID: <300@pbseps.UUCP>
Date: 5 Nov 88 03:25:14 GMT
Reply-To: rdp@pbseps.PacBell.COM (Richard Perlman)
Organization: Pacific Bell Separations, San Francisco, CA
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I am lookin to connect to ethernet installations as CHEAPLY as
possible.  At the moment cost is much more of a consideration
than performance! The purpose is to demonstrate the possibilities
of file/device sharing over medium (45 mile) distances.

The curerent installations are as follows:

A:	Sun workstation running Sun's IR and connected to one end
	of a 56kb DDS sync circuit.  Other machines exist on the
	same ethernet as the Sun.

B:	Sequent Symmetry (has SLIP available), Annex II terminal
	server (can do SLIP at <= 38kb), various PCs running
	PC-NFS.  All this is connected by thinwire with a 3COM
	Multi-port fanout box (8 empty slots).  The other end of
	the 56kb ckt is at this location and is currently
	unterminated (other than the DSU/CSU).

Note that the DSU/CSU (General Datacom) does not appear to be
able to change speeds (like its slower 9.6 cousin can).

What would you suggest???  (suggestions like "2 Proteon Routers @
12K each" will not be helpful!  8^)


Richard Perlman * pbseps!rdp@PacBell.COM || {ames,sun,att}!pacbell!pbseps!rdp
180 New Montgomery St. rm 602,  San Francisco, CA  94105  |*|  (415) 545-0233