romig@osu-dbs.UUCP (Steve ) (07/10/84)
We have two Vaxes in the neighborhood that will eventually be running 4.2 BSD. We would like to have them both on an ethernet together, but the Vaxes are separated by about a mile (as the crow flies). Because of funky red-tape sorts of things, we probably wouldn't be able to move them into the same building, so the question arises: is there a reasonable not-so-local-as-ethernet network available that we can use to tie these two machines together, and take advantage of the 4.2 networking stuff? The fundamental constraint is cost, although ease of installation (hardware and software hacking both) probably is a factor also. I will summarize... --- Steve Romig ...cbosgd!osu-dbs!romig romig@ohio-state.csnet
DBrown@HI-MULTICS.ARPA (07/13/84)
Consider a fiber-optics link: a piece of fibreglass "string" with a high speed modem at either end. A few Honeywell sites have these and the scuttlebut implies that they work well. That assumes, mind you, that (1) you can run something between the building (2) that you don't mind buying instead of leasing from Bell. The transfer rate is slightly better than a fast ethernet, but there is basically only one path per pair of modems... --dave