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Date: Sun 17-May-1990 06:30:07 From: izumi@violet.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa) Subject: Connecting NeXT to Thick Ethernet via PCbridge. Works. This is probably the cheapest way to connect multiple NeXTs to Thick Ethernet when splicing into Yellow thick coax cable is not an option. We have finally connected our NeXTs to the rest of the network by using PCbridge by Vance Morrison. Since we had a spare IBM PC clone lying around, the cost for us was about $450 for 2 Western Digital EtherCard PLUS (WD8003E; we are actually using 1 ea. WD8003E and WD8003EB). I haven't had any problems during one month of use with this setup. FTP, rlogin, telnet all work fine between NeXTs as well as between NeXT and other hosts on the other side of the PCbridge. NeXTs are running NetInfo network with NFS. I haven't tried NFS mounting across PCbridge, but I don't see any reason it shouldn't work if you use "rsize=4096,wsize=4096" as indicated in README file of the PCbridge distribution. [Thanks to Jacob Gore, jacob@Gore.com for info about PCbridge] ========+================= Thick Coax (Yellow) Transceiver | | |----+----------| Twisted-pair (Blue) |Allied Telesis |======================= host-1 (D15 connector) |AT-1600-02 |======================= host-2 | 16-port | ........ | Mulni |=======| |---------------| |Twisted-pair (Blue) | | port-1 (AUI port) |----+-----| | PCbridge | |----+-----| Thin Coax (Black) ##================|===========+==============+====.....======## Terminator port2 NeXT-1 NeXT-2 Terminator (BNC port) Here's the info on PCbridge from the original posting of PCbridge. ......................................................................... oliveb!tymix!cirrusl!dhesi Tue Oct 17 22:20:11 PDT 1989 Article 2257 of comp.binaries.ibm.pc: tymix!cirrusl!dhesi >From: morrison@accuvax.nwu.edu (Vance Morrison )
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