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- From: rick@sadtler.COM (Rick Morris)
- Newsgroups: pa.admin
- Subject: Bridges and Routers
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- Date: 31 Aug 92 14:43:34 GMT
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- Hello Sys Admins,
-
- Once again I come to the pool of knowledge, asking for your
- advice and experience in an area in which I am not too familiar.
-
- We have two thin-net backbones, one a PC-NOVELL network, another
- an UNIX Workstation network. In between is a VAXstation which
- the PC group want to access via Pathworks, and the workstation
- group wants to access via FTP.
-
- Naturally, I just plugged the two backbones together and everything
- worked fine.
-
- However, now I am finding that we are having some NFS problems. The
- client gives the "server not responding" message, the server gets
- "le0 - no carrier; transiever cable problems?" message (yup, SUNs)
- which I understand is a timeout condition.
-
- We had a nifty Cabletron repeater with Lanview (9 leds) idle on our
- shelf. I plugged the backbones in it and I found that the
- Workstation side "receive" light occaisonally blinks, but the PC
- side is on almost constantly except at night when everyone goes
- home.
-
- Here is the question. (I suspect you already know the question...)
- Do I need a bridge? Or a router? What is the difference? Is one
- better than another?
-
- Thanks in advance!
-
- -Rick Morris
-
- Sadtler Research Laboratories
- 3316 Spring Garden St.
- Philadelphia, PA 19104
-
- Phone: (215) 382-7800
- Fax: (215) 662-0585
- Email: rick@sadtler.com
-