AMillar@cup.portal.com (Alan DI Millar) (03/14/91)
Hi-
I have recently inherited some HP Starlan 10 equipment, with little
documentation. I have 2 of the hubs, and a few of the PC cards. The
hub installation manual says the hubs are compatible with the 10BaseT
drafts, but this is (I think) a year or two old.
Does anyone have more information on the HP Starlan 10 equipment? I'm
interested in knowing if this is the same as the older AT&T Starlan
hardware. I remember reading somewhere that some early 10BaseT equipment
can work with the final standard, if it has the option to disable a
particular feature (link integrity?). If so, how about this stuff?
Also, anyone know of a packet driver for these cards?
I apologize for the vagueness of this posting, but I'll appreciate
any help. Thanks.
- Alan Millarcmilono@netcom.COM (Carlo Milono) (03/15/91)
In article <40106@cup.portal.com> AMillar@cup.portal.com (Alan DI Millar) writes: >Hi- > > I have recently inherited some HP Starlan 10 equipment, with little >documentation. (stuff deleted) > > Does anyone have more information on the HP Starlan 10 equipment? I'm >interested in knowing if this is the same as the older AT&T Starlan >hardware. I remember reading somewhere that some early 10BaseT equipment >can work with the final standard, if it has the option to disable a >particular feature (link integrity?). If so, how about this stuff? >Also, anyone know of a packet driver for these cards? > Thank god for standards. Both H-P, whose Pat Thaler chaired the IEEE, and AT&T waited until the 10BaseT standard was at least stable before putting equipment on the market. Early Synoptics and Cabletron stuff won't work with anything else at the twisted-pair level...if you got some, you can interconnect with the AUI port. Link Integrity was the final draft inclusion, it being the bone of contention. I don't believe that H-P put out anything that wouldn't interoperate with the Draft 9 standard (LI excluded)...and neither did AT&T...so I am confident you can interconnect those two vendor's stuff. If I'm wrong...well, Pat will correct me! -- +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Carlo Milono: cmilono@netcom.apple.com or apple!netcom!cmilono | |"When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, | |that the dunces are all in confederacy against him." - Jonathan Swift | +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+
kumarr@hparc0.HP.COM (Kumar Rangan) (03/16/91)
/ hparc0:comp.sys.novell / AMillar@cup.portal.com (Alan DI Millar) / 4:26 am Mar 14, 1991 / > I have recently inherited some HP Starlan 10 equipment, with little >documentation. I have 2 of the hubs, and a few of the PC cards. The >hub installation manual says the hubs are compatible with the 10BaseT >drafts, but this is (I think) a year or two old. > Does anyone have more information on the HP Starlan 10 equipment? I'm >- Alan Millar ---------- U should get a better response if you post this in comp.sys.hp -kumar