New subject: Old LAN/Router stuff (was Re: More free stuff...)

25 Jun 2001

On Jun 25, 14:20, Iggy Drougge wrote:

...
  BTW, does anyone know anything about Bay networking
systems? 
Who bought SynOptics, and were in turn bought by Nortel...

...
  I once bought a big, white case at the fleamarket,
which had been in service
...
  at a power station. One label said "LAN BRIDGE
REPEATER" or something to that
...
  effect, and when I finally wedged it open, it seemed
to be a VME system. The
...
  "main" board had two 68020s, one at 16 and
one at 20 or 24 MHz. The system
...
  also had a floppy drive, which was accessed at
startup, and spome status
 lights. Other boards had several serial ports, AUI and some other ports which
...
  I couldn't recognise. The case had once been
rackmouted, and had the mounting
...
  brackets still. 
Sounds quite similar to some of the older 3Com kit, such as the Netbuilder.
 I've not seen much old Bay Networks equipment, but if it's like the
Netbuilder, then it was a modular device into which you could put various
interfaces (on the Netbuilders, each has it's own processor, and the main
board is used to provide management facilites).  Mine has FDDI, 10baseFL, a
couple of AUIs and BNCs for 10base2.  It boots from a 4MB 3.5" ED floppy,
and I use it as a router (depending on what you put in, it can be a
repeater, bridge, or router).

...
  Bay have since been bought by another companym which
in turn has been bought
...
  by yet another, which made finding information about
it quite impossible. Why
...
  do people feel such a desire to dismantle the web
sites of conquered
 companies? 
Standard problem :-(

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Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Network Manager
						University of York