[rescue] lanplex 2500

[Fogg, James]

I *may* have all the docs for this. I have a buncho high end 3com docs that
I never even looked at. I'll check tonight.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joshua D Boyd [mailto:jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 3:39 PM
> To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> Subject: [rescue] lanplex 2500
> 
> 
> I find myself the winner of an ebay auction for a 3com lanplex (aka
> corebuilder) 2500 switch with 2 8port 10baseT and 1 2port 
> FDDI cards.  
> 
> Is there anything I should know about this?  I'm hoping that 
> I can just
> plug it in and go when it arrives.
> 
> 3com has quite a bit of documentation about it.  Apparently 
> it was a $17k
> piece of hardware in 1997.  Quite a difference from what I'm 
> paying for it
> (<$100).  It appears that there is a 100baseTX card available for
> it.  Anyone have a line on getting them?
> 
> Now, to find the time to go to the state surplus warehouse to 
> try and find
> a rack for my gear...
> 
> -- 
> Joshua D. Boyd
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