Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!unmvax!pprg.unm.edu!cyrus
From: cyrus@pprg.unm.edu (Tait Cyrus)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: How do I break out from a DEC DELNI to thin-wire Ethernet?
Message-ID: <23859@pprg.unm.edu>
Date: 23 May 89 15:45:52 GMT
References: <2988@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk>
Reply-To: cyrus@pprg.unm.edu (Tait Cyrus)
Organization: U. of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Lines: 29

In article <2988@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> shoat@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Mr. David Shoat) writes:
>
>What's the best (only?) way to break out from a DEC DELNI onto thin-wire?
>.... There is also another
>port on the DELNI into which one is supposed to connect a standard thick-
>wire transceiver. This should let you break out on to a thick-wire network.
>Will this work with thin-wire, or do I need a repeater?

No, you do not need a repeater.  Yes it will work with thin-wire.  I
currently have a DELNI set up exactly that way.  I have a DESTA
(thin-wire transceiver) connected to this last port and I have not
had any troubles with it.

>Does anyone know why my whole damn network crashes every time I throw the
>switch on the DELNI which enables the external port?

Without knowing the topology of you network, I can't answer this.  Are you
sure you are not mixing heart beat with no-heart beat?
>
>Thanks.
>
>David Shoat

---
W. Tait Cyrus   (505) 277-0806		e-mail: cyrus@pprg.unm.edu
University of New Mexico			
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Parallel Processing Research Group
Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131