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Hi,
	After much running around and many meetings with 'experts,' I am still without a clue as to the best way to connect a 486 PC at my home to the Ethernet here at work.  I know that I want to run PPP, and I know that I want to run it as fast as I can.  The phone line decision is made: a PacBell 'ADN' DS-0 circuit, running at 56Kbps.  Similarly, I've identified a few likely CSU/DSU vendors that'll handle 56Kbps sync from/to a data source/sink.  From my perusing the literature, FTP Software will soon begin sel







ling a PPP package that also supports Novell protocols, which is also a requirement of ours.  (I assume it does some sort of IP tunneling.)

	Here are my questions, which no one I've found seems able to answer.  What sort of serial hardware will I need on the home 486, if I want to talk to the CSU/DSU (and thus the phone line) at 56K, synchronously?  Will the normal sort of PC comm port do the trick?  (Is there such a thing?)  (I'm a Sun/Unix guy starting the painful transition to PC's and Windows.  Forgive my naivete, please.)  I would ask these questions of the people at FTP, for instance, if only we were permitted to speak with someone who h







as, shall we say, some technical background.

	This avoids the question of what we need on the work end to connect up to our backbone Ethernet.

	So, please, all you PC datacomm dudes and dudettes get in touch, okay?  I'd appreciate any and all advice.

		Herb