[Sunhelp] Problems with Sun3 and Ethernet network

Alan Rubin rubin at ezy.net
Tue Sep 7 12:43:34 CDT 1999


i'll take a little stab at it.  is that a smart hub?  you might need a
crossover cable.

alan

On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Tim Matthews wrote:

> 
> 
> On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Wolfgang Engelien wrote:
> 
> > Hi Tim,
> > two questions.
> > 1 - is your "home network" directly (that means
> > 	without any routers in between) on the hub?
> 
> I just sent another reply with a bit more detail - due to running 10 Mbit 
> and 100 Mbit *and* IP Masq my network design is a bit wierd.
> 
> However, the network is simply my home one. I have two subnets:
> 
> 10.0.0.0 (all 100 Mbit machines) and 10.0.1.0 (all 10 Mbit machines)
> 
> A dual homed Linux box plugged into a 10 Mbit hub and a 100 Mbit hub
> routes between the two subnets.
> 
> On the 10 mbit hub is a VaxStation3100 M76 running netbsd
> 			2 x Indy 4600 running Irix 5.3
> 			HP 4/33s running OpenBSD
> 			Sparc 20 2xSM71 512 Mb RAM running Sol7
> 			Sun3/60
> 			Sparc 2 running SparcLinux
> 
> On the 100 Mbit hub is a couple of Windows 95/NT boxes
> 
> Sorry if this seems like bragging, but I like talking about my toys :)
> 
> > 2) your ethernet address seems to be a little
> > 	short. Is this a copy/paste error?
> 
> hehe. This was me running from my computer room down to the garage to look
> at old clunky.
> 
> Cheers,
> Tim
> 
> 
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