[14658] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 100Mbit ISDN solution
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dean Anderson)
Mon Jan 19 14:06:12 1998
In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980118122043.00980290@mailhost.iamerica.net>
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 13:41:57 -0500
To: Luke Parrish <lparrish@iamerica.net>, nanog@merit.edu
From: Dean Anderson <dean@av8.com>
At 1:20 PM -0500 1/18/98, Luke Parrish wrote:
>Hey guys. Ran into a problem the other day. A customer of mine has a
>100Mbit network, with 100Mbit hubs. They want ISDN access, so they hook a
>Pipeline 50 to their hub, dial it up, connect to the internet. But, hey
>nothing on the network can see it. Doh! I didnt think about the little
>10Mbit into 100Mbit hub problem. I called Ascend and they said they do not
>have a router than can do 100Mbit yet, does anyone here know of an ISDN
>router that will support 100Mbit, or some kind of AUI transceiver that may
>go 10 to 100? Any help would be greatly appreciated...
Common problem. USR doesn't do it either. Get a small 10/100 switch that's
per port switchable. Then you can hook up a few other things that may only
do 10 Mbps. This will probably be an even bigger problem over the next few
years at least with giga coming out.
--Dean
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