[131761] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Token ring? topic hijack: was Re: Mystery open source switching
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jacob Broussard)
Wed Nov 3 01:12:55 2010
In-Reply-To: <1011030456.AA12296@ivan.Harhan.ORG>
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 00:12:50 -0500
From: Jacob Broussard <shadowedstranger@gmail.com>
To: Michael Sokolov <msokolov@ivan.harhan.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Wow... Reading this thread I feel like some sort of time traveler, what with
my cable internet, multicore processor, and smartphone.
On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 11:56 PM, Michael Sokolov
<msokolov@ivan.harhan.org>wrote:
> I wrote:
>
> : Thin. I *so* wish I had thick coaxial Ethernet, but alas, my present
> : physical facility is just too small for that: my present coax Ethernet
> : network is contained within a single machine room which is a converted
> : bedroom.
>
> Forgot to add: this thin coax Ethernet interconnects several MicroVAXen
> (including ivan.Harhan.ORG, the machine on which my mail lives and from
> which I am sending this post) running 4.3BSD-Quasijarus, and a Cisco
> 2500 router which connects my retrocomputing centre to
> ARPANET^H^H^H^H^H^H^HSDSL. The SDSL connection is made via a device of
> my very own design and make that connects to the copper pair, handles
> the physics of 2-wire full-duplex transmission, and converts SDSL/ATM to
> V.35, or more precisely EIA-530, which then goes to the Cisco 2500.
>
> MS
>
>
