Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 SMI; site sun.uucp Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!oliveb!Glacier!decwrl!sun!jr 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 Article-I.D.: sun.2946 Posted: Tue Oct 29 19:58:47 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 2-Nov-85 06:52:49 EST References: <360@nrcvax.UUCP> <227@l5.uucp> Reply-To: jr@sun.UUCP (John Reed) Distribution: net Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc. Lines: 22 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. -- ...!{ucbvax,decwrl,ihnp4}!sun!jr (John M. Reed) Sun Microsystems Inc, 2550 Garcia Ave, MS5-40, Mountain View, CA, 94043 415-960-7336