gamiddleton@thunder.UUCP (Guy Middleton) (10/30/85)
We will be putting in an ethernet soon; it may have to span several
buildings. I had heard that this may present problems. I would like to
hear from people who have multi-building ethernets, so I know what kind of
chance I am taking.
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Guy Middleton, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ont.
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..ihnp4!mmm!thunder!gamiddletonsmoot@im4u.UUCP (Mitchell) (11/03/85)
We run our rather large ethernet between several buildings here at the University of Texas without a major problem. Currently we have a backbone cable running between the CS department and the Computation Center. This cable spans three buildings. Off of this cable we run several other ethernet cables connected by repeaters and remote repeaters to several other buildings on campus. This configuration kind of stretches the original intent of an ethernet, but seems to work fairly well. Eventually we plan to install a broadband backbone cable between the buildings and use ethernets within single buildings only. I have heard of ground potential problems with running the cable between buildings. So far we have experienced no problems with ground loops or other such nasty phenomena.
kotter@muscat.UUCP (Rich Kotter) (11/08/85)
> We will be putting in an ethernet soon; it may have to span several > buildings. I had heard that this may present problems. You may want to look at a new product announced by DEC called LAN Bridge 100 that allows you to connect multiple ethernets together. They can be electrically isolated with a fiber optic link up to 2000 meters, traffic that is local to one ethernet does not get sent to the other ethernet unless that's where the destination is, to the systems it looks like one big ethernet, and you can link up to seven ethernets with bridges. It is also protocol independent. -- Rich Kotter decvax!decwrl!muscat!kotter
steve@umd-cs.uucp (Steven M. Miller) (11/14/85)
>Organization: DEC Western Region Operations, Santa Clara, CA >> We will be putting in an ethernet soon; it may have to span several >> buildings. I had heard that this may present problems. >You may want to look at a new product announced by DEC called LAN Bridge >100 that allows you to connect multiple ethernets together. They can be >electrically isolated with a fiber optic link up to 2000 meters, traffic >that is local to one ethernet does not get sent to the other ethernet unless >that's where the destination is, to the systems it looks like one big >ethernet, and you can link up to seven ethernets with bridges. It is also >protocol independent. >Rich Kotter decvax!decwrl!muscat!kotter Free advertising on the net again... Bridge also has a similar product, and I don't believe it's limited to 2000 meters either. -steve -- \ Go Bulldog / 1982-83 NCAA Quarterfinalists \__ HOCKEY! __/ 1983-84 NCAA Runners Up (4 OT's) WCHA CHAMPS 1984-85 NCAA Third Place (3 OT's) WCHA CHAMPS 1985-86 NCAA CHAMPIONS!!!! WCHA CHAMPS Spoken: Steven M. Miller UUCP: ihnp4!umn-cs!umd-cs!steve USPS: Computer Science Dept, University of Minnesota at Duluth, 10 University Drive, Duluth, MN 55812