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From: bolsen@seanet.com (Bruce Olsen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.sco.misc,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Help: Routing between FreeBSD and SCO
Date: 24 Dec 1995 16:45:05 GMT
Organization: DUO Systems
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In article <30d9c54d.172078170@206.11.160.12>, vanvleet@rrnet.com÷ says...
>
>Hello all!
>
>Once again, a routing question comes up.  We have a SCO 3.2v4.2 box
>(ternion) running straight off our ten-base-T Novell/unix network.  We
>adopted a stray 486 and stuck FreeBSD 2.1.0-950726-SNAP on it and it
>became another node on our 10-base-t network.  And everything was
>great, no problems.  But now we need that 10-base-t jack, so in order
>to keep it, we needed to put it on the network in a different manner.
>We threw in a WD8013 card into the sco box, set it for BNC and set the
>BSD box (cerulean) to also do BNC and routing is all messed up.  We
>have messed with this for quite a while to no avail.

Why not get another hub and cascade it off your existing port to make as
many more as you need? I've seen 4 port hubs for as little as $90. You can 
get 8 port hubs for $130.

-- 
Bruce Olsen bolsen@seanet.com
DUO Systems
All standard disclaimers apply.