9 Jun
2001
9 Jun
'01
12:50 a.m.
On Jun 8, 22:46, Brian Hechinger wrote:
i have found absolutely nothing out about the Suminet
though. i can't
find
docs for it, actually i can find very little about
this thing on the
internet.
if anyone has any info whatsoever, please let me know,
it's got a serial
port
that looks like it would be a console, but it only
prints the same line
over
and over (i'd have to hook it up to get a copy of
the line) and it's
nothing
intelligable.
All I know is that Suminet is a Japanese brand of network equipment, and a
3500H is an FDDI DAS (dual-attach) to Ethernet (and possibly Token Ring)
router. I've never seen any Suminet kit, but if you tell us what the
connectors look like, and how many there are, maybe I can tell you what you
have. If some are 15-pin D-connectors, it would help to know whether they
have clips or screws for mounting, and whether they are male or female. As
for the serial port, I'd expect it is indeed a console line, and you've
just got the wrong baud rate. Or it's Japanese!
I still haven't quite got my own FDDI up and running, partly due to a
faulty SAS card in one of my SGIs. If anyone has any surplus FDDI boards
for SGI kit, especially GIO DAS, or any surplus *small* bridges or routers,
I'd be interested to hear from you...
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
9 Jun
9 Jun
5:13 a.m.
On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 09:50:58AM +0000, Pete Turnbull wrote:
All I know is that Suminet is a Japanese brand of network equipment, and a
yeah, searching on google i can find very little, but if i look up Sumitomo
(the manufacturer) i can find a web poge for them. sadly they haven't made
this thing in a long time, so there is no mention of it on their rather ugly
web site.
3500H is an FDDI DAS (dual-attach) to Ethernet (and
possibly Token Ring)
router. I've never seen any Suminet kit, but if you tell us what the
connectors look like, and how many there are, maybe I can tell you what you
have. If some are 15-pin D-connectors, it would help to know whether they
have clips or screws for mounting, and whether they are male or female. As
it's got DAS FDDI on the system board, a Dual AUI ethernet card and a
token-ring card. each card has a set of status lights (couple leds in a row
numbered starting from 0) and the DB-25 on the system board.
for the serial port, I'd expect it is indeed a
console line, and you've
just got the wrong baud rate. Or it's Japanese!
well, hmmmmm. i've tried a handful of rates/settings and haven't come up with
much, tried straight through and roll-over, nothing works for me. if it's in
japanese i have no idea what to expect output to look like on a non japanese
terminal (if i added japanese support to solaris would tip be able to take
advantage of that??) i can plug the thing in and show you the garbage i get
at 9600 8n1 if you'd like.
I still haven't quite got my own FDDI up and
running, partly due to a
faulty SAS card in one of my SGIs. If anyone has any surplus FDDI boards
for SGI kit, especially GIO DAS, or any surplus *small* bridges or routers,
I'd be interested to hear from you...
nope, don't have any of that, sorry. finally got my FDDI ring into a sane
state. DAS backbone ring with all the network equipment hanging off of that.
all the sun boxes (that can support it anyway) have SAS FDDI cards and hook
into a 3Com FDDI Hub. so far, i LOVE FDDI. now all i need are two 6U VME FDDI
cards for my SGI 4d boxen, and a handful of TuboChannel FDDI cards for my one
alpha, and my small army of DECstation 5000 beasts. oh, QBus FDDI would be
kinda cool too. :)
-brian (who has too many machine, most of them LARGE)
9:17 a.m.
On Sat, 9 Jun 2001, Brian Hechinger wrote:
On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 09:50:58AM +0000, Pete
Turnbull wrote:
I would rather expect it to look a lot like the Chinese spam that we see
All I know is that Suminet is a Japanese brand of network equipment, and a
yeah, searching on google i can find very little, but if i look up Sumitomo
(the manufacturer) i can find a web poge for them. sadly they haven't made
this thing in a long time, so there is no mention of it on their rather ugly
web site.
3500H is an FDDI DAS (dual-attach) to Ethernet
(and possibly Token Ring)
router. I've never seen any Suminet kit, but if you tell us what the
connectors look like, and how many there are, maybe I can tell you what you
have. If some are 15-pin D-connectors, it would help to know whether they
have clips or screws for mounting, and whether they are male or female. As
it's got DAS FDDI on the system board, a Dual AUI ethernet card and a
token-ring card. each card has a set of status lights (couple leds in a row
numbered starting from 0) and the DB-25 on the system board.
for the serial port, I'd expect it is indeed
a console line, and you've
just got the wrong baud rate. Or it's Japanese!
well, hmmmmm. i've tried a handful of rates/settings and haven't come up with
much, tried straight through and roll-over, nothing works for me. if it's in
japanese i have no idea what to expect output to look like on a non japanese
terminal (if i added japanese support to solaris would tip be able to take
advantage of that??) i can plug the thing in and show you the garbage i get
at 9600 8n1 if you'd like. from Hong Kong and Taiwan occasionally. There is
considerable
similarity in their characters.
- don
I still
haven't quite got my own FDDI up and running, partly due to a
faulty SAS card in one of my SGIs. If anyone has any surplus FDDI boards
for SGI kit, especially GIO DAS, or any surplus *small* bridges or routers,
I'd be interested to hear from you...
nope, don't have any of that, sorry. finally got my FDDI ring into a sane
state. DAS backbone ring with all the network equipment hanging off of that.
all the sun boxes (that can support it anyway) have SAS FDDI cards and hook
into a 3Com FDDI Hub. so far, i LOVE FDDI. now all i need are two 6U VME FDDI
cards for my SGI 4d boxen, and a handful of TuboChannel FDDI cards for my one
alpha, and my small army of DECstation 5000 beasts. oh, QBus FDDI would be
kinda cool too. :)
-brian (who has too many machine, most of them LARGE)
11 Jun
11 Jun
8:04 p.m.
Don Maslin skrev:
On Sat, 9 Jun 2001, Brian Hechinger wrote:
> well, hmmmmm. i've tried a handful of
rates/settings and haven't come up
> with much, tried straight through and roll-over, nothing works for me. if
> it's in japanese i have no idea what to expect output to look like on a non
> japanese terminal (if i added japanese support to solaris would tip be able
> to take advantage of that??) i can plug the thing in and show you the
> garbage i get at 9600 8n1 if you'd like.
I would rather expect it to look a lot like the Chinese
spam that we see
from Hong Kong and Taiwan occasionally. There is considerable
similarity in their characters.
I don't agree. The Chinese charsets which I've seen (there are of course
several) do not particularly look like Japanese ones when viewed on an 8-bit
terminal. Chinese tends to stay primarily within the visible upper 128
characters, whereas Japanese mostly renders as a lot of "square" characters.
I can quite easily see the difference between Japanese and Chinese without any
16-bit rendering software.
--
En ligne avec Thor 2.6a.
The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.
15 Jun
15 Jun
2:53 p.m.
On 12 Jun 2001, Iggy Drougge wrote:
Don Maslin skrev:
I'll take your word for it, as I have never made such a study.
- don
On Sat, 9 Jun 2001, Brian Hechinger wrote:
> well, hmmmmm. i've tried a handful of
rates/settings and haven't come up
> with much, tried straight through and roll-over, nothing works for me. if
> it's in japanese i have no idea what to expect output to look like on a non
> japanese terminal (if i added japanese support to solaris would tip be able
> to take advantage of that??) i can plug the thing in and show you the
> garbage i get at 9600 8n1 if you'd like.
I would rather expect it to look a lot like the
Chinese spam that we see
from Hong Kong and Taiwan occasionally. There is considerable
similarity in their characters.
I don't agree. The Chinese charsets which I've seen (there are of course
several) do not particularly look like Japanese ones when viewed on an 8-bit
terminal. Chinese tends to stay primarily within the visible upper 128
characters, whereas Japanese mostly renders as a lot of "square" characters.
I can quite easily see the difference between Japanese and Chinese without any
16-bit rendering software. --
En ligne avec Thor 2.6a.
The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.
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