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by david_grant

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I have a workgroup with several windows NT workstations running the FDDI protocol. I also have a LAN/WAN running Win2000/WinNT servers and clients (TCP/IP). I would like to be able to join both networks to allow remote access to the workgroup machines from my LAN/WAN client machines. I (as do we all) have a limited budget to accomplish this. Please provide as much detail as possible on how this can be best accomplished.

Thanks in advance.

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by mckaytech

You didn't describe your network equipment, so I can only offer the general suggestion that if you have a modular router (e.g. Cisco 3640, 7206, etc.)to which an FDDI interface could be added, that would probably be your most economical and best route. Cisco's IOS is quite capable of the necessary translations and I know the modules are available.

Another strategy that can sometimes be used is to multi-home one of the workstations on both the FDDI ring and the LAN/WAN (i.e. install a conventional Ethernet NIC in one of the FDDI workstations and connect that NIC to your LAN/WAN) but I have this gut feeling this would not work for your application because of the limited routing capabilities provided by NT Workstation software.

I'll look forward to reading other ideas on how to accomplish this.

paul

by ebob

You need to put a router between the networks.

This could be a "real" router, like a Cisco 2600/3600 series, with the appropriate interfaces. Or it could be a computer with 2 NICs (one for each network), and routing (aka "IP Forwarding") enabled.

I'm prejudiced, and prefer the "real" router approach. The time spent configuring up routing on a "computer" is just too costly.

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