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The Question is: We are trying to hook up a Sun E4000 Running solaris2.5.1 10BaseT Ethernet to a Delni box (15 pin AUI connector) which is hooked to a DEC 3000-600x Alpha AxP. Can you help me with a solution to make this connection work. They were trying to use a Transceiver between the SUN (UTP) and the Delni (AUI)but this connection did not work. The Transceiver was not getting any power from the AUI connection..... Thanks.. Bryan New DOE.... The Answer is : This question of Ethernet transceiver power is well outside the OpenVMS operating system, the usual haunts of the OpenVMS Wizard. The DELNI is also particularly old hardware, and predates technologies such as UTP. (The Wizard would recommend upgrading to more recent Ethernet hardware.) First, make sure you are not connecting to the DELNI via the global port. (This is the port used to connect the DELNI to a transceiver and Ethernet cable, or to a DELNI in a two-level "cascading" network configuration.) Then make sure the widget can survive with the heartbeat setting provided by the DELNI -- the DELNI generally supplies a heartbeat when switched into local mode. If connected via the global port via a transceiver, the transceiver can *not* provide heartbeat. Mixing IEEE 802.3 passive (no heartbeat desired) and active devices on the same DELNI is not something that the Wizard would recommend. The Wizard would recommend contacting the customer support center for assistance with the DELNI, though would first suggest entirely replacing the DELNI with a readily available UTP to ThinWire repeater and moving to a UTP hub.
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