Okay everyone, I’ll start off with this first:
IT ACTUALLY WORKS!
I’m insanely curious as to why, since by all rights it shouldn’t.
Here’s the history:
Our bank HAD a T1 between two buildings monitored by our telco with each building routed through two ACC Danubes connected through V.35 GDC 552s.
That line constantly fell off (once to twice a week) causing us to cycle the equipment and literally shutdown the network for 5-10 minutes at a time.
I got REALLY sick of it.
So I had an idea: We’ve got a 500′ 200-pair telephone cable (that we ran in ’93 and OWN completely). Why not use that?!
HERE’S MY SOLUTION:
I bought two CISCO 1721s with IP/IPX support and 10baseT WAN modules and connected them to hubs and puncheddown Cat5e on each end. It worked….WHOA.
Here’s a (very simple) diagram to help explain it.
CISCO 1721–HUB-{500′ phone cable}-HUB–CISCO 1721
Why the heck does it actually work? The 802.3 specs say this shouldn’t work! It was just an experiment born from complete frustration! What’d I do right?! 🙂
