Starlan on ethernet

[Peter Day {EUCC}]

One of our departments has purchased some AT&T 6300+ and a 3B1 and
wants to put in Starlan running on existing telephone wire, which is
not being used, having been abandoned when the university installed its
own phone system. The professor who led them down this path does not
want to spend his time supporting the use of these machines in the
department, so the joy of doing this will fall to the User Services
group in the Computer Center.

The Computer Center is already supporting ethernet, TCP/IP, Decnet,
AppleTalk, and will have to support broadband, NFS, token ring and SNA.
The broadband networking vendor is providing ethernet bridges and will
provide token ring bridges. The Center is faced with having to support
yet another network and wiring scheme and having to find a way to
bridge it through the broadband.

The department is willing to consider alternatives. They need to run
MSDOS applications and unix applications, and they want to be able to
share text files and Microsoft Word files.  They want to be able to do
electronic mail and share printers.  They want any workstation to be
able to provide file service to other workstations.

So what is desired is a way to network MSDOS machines and Unix System V
machines so that they can provide file service to each other, and
using, say, ethernet to connect them.

Any ideas or leads would be appreciated. Please reply directly to
me, and I will summarize to the net if appropriate.

Thanks,

Peter W. Day

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