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From: hans@log-hb.UUCP (Hans Albertsson)
Newsgroups: net.lan
Subject: Re: mixing 3com and Interlan boards?
Message-ID: <241@log-hb.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 7-Feb-85 17:20:57 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb  7 17:20:57 1985
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Reply-To: hans@log-hb.UUCP (Hans Albertsson)
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Summary: 

In article <720@dlinj.UUCP> ahi@dlinj.UUCP (Anders Hillbo) writes:
>
>We first got 2 InterLan boards and 3 new InterLan xcvrs, the new
>xvrs all cease working after being connected between 1-3 mins. We persuaded
>our local dealer to get the old InterLan xcvr and then everything worked.
>In the mean time I used my Xerox (TCL vampire) xcvr with the InterLan board, 
>that worked wery well. 
>
>On compatiblity: We have Sun 3-Com, Xerox TCL and (old) InterLan xvrs 
>on the same net. It works perfectly.

We recently got the stuff installed, that is we had a SUN 2/120 with 3com,
and bought a NI1010A + NT100 xcvr + all the cabling from the local Interlan
reps. Unlike Anders, I had no real difficulties.  The only bad bit about it
all was having to wait 3 weeks for the Belden ether cable. ScanCopter, the
local rep, was nice about it all the way, promising beforehand to switch
anything that didn't work out, giving an extra piece of cable away for
practising cutting and soldering on, giving us a barrel connector, things
like that. 

I installed it all myself, and turned the stuff on, rebooted, and voila, no
problems at all. Rcp and rlogin worked right away. Rwho will NEVER work, it
seems, talk is ok, mazewar kills Suns, all is thus in the expected state of
confusion....
There were nothing like what was in everybody elses horror stories. We never
could test wether Scancopter actually would have switched tranceivers..

I have no connection with Interlan or it's local rep apart from being a
reasonably satisfied customer. 

Just thought I'd tell a story somewhat nicer to Interlan's reputation.
Next month we'll look at NP100, switching from NI1010. Anybody have any
experience with that beast yet?
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