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- From: christes@socrates.umd.edu (Skip Christensen)
- Subject: Re: HELP NEEDED TO MAKE ETHERNET AND TOKEN RING COEXIST ON RS6K
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.132041.22960@socrates.umd.edu>
- Organization: University of Maryland University College
- References: <1993Jan21.164446.21646@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu> <C19xo1.D61@csfb1.fir.fbc.com>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 13:20:41 GMT
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- In article <C19xo1.D61@csfb1.fir.fbc.com> uunet!csfb1!jswanson writes:
- >In article <1993Jan21.164446.21646@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu>, sivkumar@dolphins.ent.ohiou.edu (Krish Sivakumar) writes:
- >|> We have a IBM RS6000 530H running TCP/IP under AIX 3.2.3
- >|> The machine is fully configured and operational with ethernet.
- >|> We are trying to set up a local token ring using the
- >|> Token Ring Adapter in the same Machine and planning to use the
- >|> ethernet as the Token Ring's Gateway to the outside world.
- >|>
- >|> We are not quite sure how to go about doing this. Initial attempts ended
- >|> up in the ethernet getting rendered inactive
- >|>
- >|> Any suggestions, comments, ideas, solutions or thoughts are more than welcome.
- >|> Thanks
- >|> --
- >|> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
- >|> - Krish Sivakumar Drive Defensively, Buy a tank -
- >|> - Dept. of Mechanical Engineering -------------------------------
- >|> - Ohio University, - /\ /\
- >
- >
- >It should be a simple matter to define each of the network adapters to have
- >a different address and put 2 addresses for your host in the host file. You
- >may need to assign a different subnet to each network card rather than simply
- >a different host address, but one or the other should work fine. This is a
- >standard feature of IP.
- >
- >Once the network cards are set up, you infrom the other nodes that they may
- >route through the dual-ported node to access the folks on the other side.
- >
- >--
- >Jim Swanson
- >First Boston Corporation
- >5WTC - 9th floor
- >New York, NY 10048
- >(212)322-1085
-
- I agree - I've installed a model 340 with its built-in Ethernet (one
- address), a second Ethernet (another addreess) and a dual-ring FDDI
- (with its own address). No problem.
-