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From: jr@sun.uucp (John Reed)
Newsgroups: net.dcom
Subject: Re: Serial line gateways for Ethernets
Message-ID: <2946@sun.uucp>
Date: Tue, 29-Oct-85 19:58:47 EST
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Posted: Tue Oct 29 19:58:47 1985
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References: <360@nrcvax.UUCP> <227@l5.uucp>
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Keywords: TCP/IP Internetwork Router

In article <227@l5.uucp> gnu@l5.uucp (John Gilmore) writes:
>In article <360@nrcvax.UUCP>, geoffb@nrcvax.UUCP (G. Geoffrey Baehr) writes:
>>                                          If you want to gateway down to a
>> slow speed link, gateway back out to another net , using XNS, you're in
>> good shape. Any other combination is 'interesting'.
>
>Sun sells an Internetwork Router that runs in a pair of Suns (one on
>either end of a serial link) that handles TCP/IP gatewaying without
>being especially 'interesting'.  It can run at low speeds (9600) using
>the serial ports on the CPU board, or for 56KBit operation a comm board
>with its own processor is supported.

A minor correction to John Gilmore's message -

The Sun Internetwork Router runs at speeds up to 230 Kbits using the
associated comm board.

JR.
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