Two TCP/IP Links

[Lyle Seaman]

dave at oldcolo.UUCP (Dave Hughes) writes:

>What is the best solution to the following: A Xenix 2.2.2 386 box
>sitting next to a Unix 3.2 386, which they desire to link together
>with an Ethernet thin wire board and TCP/IP. But a desire to
>*also* link the Unix 3.2 box to a Vax with Ethernet thin wire
>and TCP/IP. 

>What would this entail? Two ethernet boards in the Unix 386, one
>connected to the other 386 and one to the Vax? Will the TCP/IP
>software handle that? Or wil ethernet boards for 386s permit
>multiple thin wire connections?

one wire, three machines, three interfaces.  ethernet is _not_ point-
to-point.  There's only one thin wire connection per board, but
it's a broadcast medium.

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