Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site tmq.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!tmq!peter From: peter@tmq.UUCP (Life gets very Weird) Newsgroups: net.lan Subject: lo-rent LAN Message-ID: <201@tmq.UUCP> Date: Sat, 20-Jul-85 18:47:25 EDT Article-I.D.: tmq.201 Posted: Sat Jul 20 18:47:25 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 22-Jul-85 07:18:41 EDT Distribution: net Organization: tmq/ICOM Buffalo Grove, IL Lines: 16 Good Evening. Welcome to a nightmare come true. I am going to try to implement lrL, short for lo-rent LAN, on my system V VAX with Intel Bit-Bus controllers (8044's). BitBus basically implements all the ethernet transport stuff (such as addressing, acknowlegement, collision detect and resolution) with a $22 chip and a RS-485 twisted pair. This seems like a such a deal. Has anybody done this before? Is it possible to obtain and gimmick for system V any of the nifty Berkley/ARPA network control stuff (FTP, SMTP, Telnet, etc) with this setup? Any recommendations on books/literature on LAN's? (The degree is in Chemical Engineering, not CS/EE) Yours from the zone, P.J. Kerrigan -- Peter Kerrigan -- ..!ihnp4!tmq!peter