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Re: (ASCEND) Token Ring and Pipe 75?

Why not get a 486 with 8 meg of ram for about $200 and put linux on it.  Put a 
token ring card and an ethernet card and have it either bridge or route.  You 
could even run ip masquerading on the machine for a type of firewalling, or to 
save ip addresses.  I've done it and it works like a charm, and the price is 
right.

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Dave McFerren davem@solve.net
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Net Solutions, Inc.
816-220-0303 fax 816-220-0333
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> Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1998 15:46:02 -0400
> To: Glenn Howard <sysadmin@pgweb.com>
> From: Jim Howard <jhoward@lyceum.com>
> Subject: Re: (ASCEND) Token Ring  and Pipe 75?
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> At 14:10 1998/10/08 -0700, Glenn Howard wrote:
> >We have a potential customer who has approached us to hook up a Pipeline
> >75 into their token-ring network to allow internet access to these
> 
> Black Box has a device that will bridge ethernet to token ring
> at $4000, or you could probably use a cisco 2513 running in either 
> bridge or router mode at about $3500.
> 
> But if you are going to spend that much you might as well just
> get them a router with a token ring interface and ISDN BRI...
> As others have reported, I too used a server with two interfaces
> to act as a router between segments when the client balked at
> the better solution (IMHO) of an expensive bridge or switch.
> (they have since completely replaced the TR with 100bTX ethernet)
> 
> -Jim H
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