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Date:      Thu, 4 Jun 1998 22:52:56 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        "Abraham J. Stephens" <stephea@aasis.albany-academy.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 2 nics, connecting w/ Sun IPC
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980604225230.26356B-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980604202642.415A-100000@aasis.albany-academy.org>

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On Thu, 4 Jun 1998, Abraham J. Stephens wrote:

> If I have a freebsd box connected to our building wide ethernet (10BaseT),
> is it possible to put a second nic in it that would handle 10Base5 so that
> I could connect an old Sun in order to install an OpenBSD port off the
> FreeBSD server.
> The basic problem is that I have to connect a machine with a 10Base5 nic
> to a network connection that is 10BaseT. I was hoping to do it through the
> FreeBSD box.

oh yeah -- you can buy coax -> utp adapters from most network gear
catalogs.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major
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