Subject: Re: Making use of the CI bus as IP data link ...
To: Gunther Schadow <gunther@aurora.regenstrief.org>
From: Dave McGuire <mcguire@neurotica.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 05/28/2001 18:19:39
On May 28, Gunther Schadow wrote:
> > Yes, it is supported in Ultrix and works well (we have used it for
> > several years). It runs about 70Mbit with an MTU of around 8K.
> 
> Yes! Cool. Now you do use the star coupler as a hub, don't you?
> Are all 4 CI connectors used for a single VAX-to-starcoupler link?
> If not, and if a crossover VAX-to-VAX link would be physically
> possible, one could build sort of a ring network where every
> VAX connects to two neighbors and all do link-layer bridging.

  That is SICK.  I think I like it. :)

     -Dave McGuire