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Re: Asante 2072

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Walsh)
Mon Mar 21 10:03:55 1994

From: Chris Walsh <mack23@andre.mech.nwu.edu>
To: roy@mchip00.med.nyu.edu (Roy Smith)
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 1994 08:53:00 -0600 (CST)
Cc: resnet-forum@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <9403211159.AA03356@mchip00.med.nyu.edu> from "Roy Smith" at Mar 21, 94 06:59:23 am

Roy Smith writes:

> If it matters, our plan is to run fiber into the building and vertically.
> Every few floors, there will be a large 10baseT hub cluster serving a
> couple of floors (3 clusters all together, each one serving one IP subnet
> (8-bits worth) and one AppleTalk phase-II network.  Other protocols in
> use on the campus (DECNet, IPX, etc) will be blocked at the cisco router
> which feed the fiber runs into the building.

Why block IPX?  Is it not the case that PC users might want to attach
to a server from their dorm locations?     

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