On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Dave McGuire wrote:

> On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Chris Tribo wrote:
> >    Hehe, as long as we're on the topic :) I've got a DEC LANbridge 200
> >sitting in my closet. I opened it up and noticed that it has both an
> >Motorola 68020 @ 20 MHz AND an LSI R3000?! It seems to have quite a bit of
> >buffer memory and two 10Base Ethernet interfaces.
> >    Could anything useful be done with this? I don't have any software nor
> >any documentation for it, and I can't justify the 4 Amps it sucks down for
> >the pretty flashing lights :-)
> 
>   I'm using about ten of them on various networks that I work on.  It's
> basically a two-port ethernet switch.  They work very, very well.  They don't
> need software...they run from ROM.  Just plug it in and turn it on.
> 
>   And they don't pull anywhere near four amps.
> 
>                    -Dave McGuire
> 

	I know they work well, I just don't have the dipswitch / jumper
equivalents or the adminstration software to set up packet filtering,
etc. I've heard they are quite well featured, and with a 68020 and an LSI
R3xxx, quite powerful.
	Yeah four amps is a little exagerated :-) IIRC, it does draw about
2.3 Amps.

	Chris