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Yes, you can intermix Interlan and 3Com on one net (we have Interlan in our
VAX, 3Com in one Sun, Sun's own with Xerox chip in another Sun, Xerox in
Xerox Lisp machines).  At the packet level everybody talks to everybody.
At higher levels, not everything talks (much) to everybody else, but that's
because of different protocols (a higher-level software issue).  That's the
whole point of the Ethernet standard--everybodies equipment interconnects.

I don't believe 3Com has gone bust, just decided to concentrate on Ethernets
for micros; thus the dropping of boards for minis.

[There have been reports of some incompatibilities between certain
controllers and tranceivers, but once you have a tranceiver which works with
the controller to which it is (directly) attached, it talks to every other
tranceiver on the net OK]
-- 
Darrel J. Van Buer, PhD
System Development Corp.
2500 Colorado Ave
Santa Monica, CA 90406
(213)820-4111 x5449
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                                                            !sdcrdcf!darrelj
VANBUER@USC-ECL.ARPA