9 Oct
2001
9 Oct
'01
2:58 p.m.
On Oct 9, 12:50, Tarsi wrote:
I've decided that one of my goals is to run every
networking topology
possible in my house, regardless if I actually NEED to run them or not.
:)
4) Any other interesting topologies I should try? I
have plans to do:
Arcnet, FDDI, Token ring, Localtalk, 10b2, 10b5, 10bT, 10bTX, 10bFiber,
and
(eventually) 802.11b wireless.
ATM would be good, and although there's a lot of it around, you should be
able to pick up a couple of routers fairly cheaply.
Acorn Econet? There's Linux support for that too.
How about the original DIX Ethernet? Try a web search for Aloha.
Sinclair (Timex) machines like the Spectrum and QL used a proprietary
network, but I think the only other company to ever use it was ICL.
Do you count ADSL, ISDN, X.21, or just LAN stuff?
10base2, 10base5, 10baseF (and FOIRL), 10baseT, 100baseTX, 100baseT4,
100baseFX, 1000baseTX, 1000baseSX, 100baseLX and 1000baseCX are all closely
related and you will find some excellent references at
http://www.techfest.com/networking/lan.htm
10base2 and 10base5 are bus topologies using 50-ohm coax; 10baseF (and its
predecessor FOIRL), 100baseFX, and 1000baseSX/LX are fibre technologies
often used as point-to-point but can be used in star networks too; 10baseT,
100baseTX, and 100baseT4 use UTP and are normally used in star topologies.
Before you get too carried away, you might want to think about the
permutations of protocols, technologies, and topologies or you'll need a
much larger house :-) The same fibre that carries FOIRL can (if it's the
right size, 50/125) carry 10baseF, 100baseFX, 1000baseSX, ATM, FDDI, ...
I have a thin Ethernet (10base2) segment, a thick Ethernet (10base5)
segment, a lot of Cat5e carrying 10baseT and some 100baseTX, a chunk of
FDDI, some FOIRL, 10baseF, and potentially 100baseFX, at home; and there's
lots of redundant ATM kit at work but (a) I have no room, and (b) I'd have
to buy it (which is against my religion). I also have some Econet, ISDN,
UUCP serial links, etc.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
10 Oct
10 Oct
5:45 a.m.
Pete Turnbull skrev:
On Oct 9, 12:50, Tarsi wrote:
I've
decided that one of my goals is to run every networking topology
possible in my house, regardless if I actually NEED to run them or not.
:) 4) Any other
interesting topologies I should try? I have plans to do:
Arcnet, FDDI, Token ring, Localtalk, 10b2, 10b5, 10bT, 10bTX, 10bFiber,
and
> (eventually) 802.11b wireless. ATM would be good, and although there's a lot of it
around, you should be
able to pick up a couple of routers fairly cheaply.
Acorn Econet? There's Linux support for that too.
How about the original DIX Ethernet? Try a web search
for Aloha.
Was DIX really the original Ethernet? Wasn't that 10 Mbps and all?
Sinclair (Timex) machines like the Spectrum and QL used
a proprietary
network, but I think the only other company to ever use it was ICL.
LUXNET or ABCNET for Luxor machines?
I mentioned Amigalink yesterday, but there is another Amigalink which uses
10b2 cabling on a bus with transceivers which connect to the Amiga diskdrive
port. More info is available at http://www.amitrix.com/.
--
En ligne avec Thor 2.6a.
"LART is an acronym for Luser Attitude Readjustment Tool, and is generally a
piece of heavy hard material such as a cricket or baseball bat, hunk of pipe,
or 2x4 for the fine tuning of a luser's atitude. This is a noun that can be
used as a verb. If I say I lart someone, I mean that I am performing delicate
tuning procedures upon that persons head utilizing a LART. An ICBM would be
considered an agressive LART."
9:37 a.m.
What about the system that was used in large scale lab stuff, I am thinking
by Kinetic Systems and it linked instrument racks together that they called
Crates. They were all over the big physics labs.
1:50 p.m.
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13 Oct
13 Oct
7:34 p.m.
(b) I'd have to buy it (which is against my religion)
Shame on you, that almost sounds communist.
Pete Turnbull wrote:
On Oct 9, 12:50, Tarsi wrote:
I've decided that one of my goals is to run
every networking topology
possible in my house, regardless if I actually NEED to run them or not.
:)
4) Any other interesting topologies I should
try? I have plans to do:
Arcnet, FDDI, Token ring, Localtalk, 10b2, 10b5, 10bT, 10bTX, 10bFiber,
and
(eventually) 802.11b wireless.
ATM would be good, and although there's a lot of it around, you should be
able to pick up a couple of routers fairly cheaply.
Acorn Econet? There's Linux support for that too.
How about the original DIX Ethernet? Try a web search for Aloha.
Sinclair (Timex) machines like the Spectrum and QL used a proprietary
network, but I think the only other company to ever use it was ICL.
Do you count ADSL, ISDN, X.21, or just LAN stuff?
10base2, 10base5, 10baseF (and FOIRL), 10baseT, 100baseTX, 100baseT4,
100baseFX, 1000baseTX, 1000baseSX, 100baseLX and 1000baseCX are all closely
related and you will find some excellent references at
http://www.techfest.com/networking/lan.htm
10base2 and 10base5 are bus topologies using 50-ohm coax; 10baseF (and its
predecessor FOIRL), 100baseFX, and 1000baseSX/LX are fibre technologies
often used as point-to-point but can be used in star networks too; 10baseT,
100baseTX, and 100baseT4 use UTP and are normally used in star topologies.
Before you get too carried away, you might want to think about the
permutations of protocols, technologies, and topologies or you'll need a
much larger house :-) The same fibre that carries FOIRL can (if it's the
right size, 50/125) carry 10baseF, 100baseFX, 1000baseSX, ATM, FDDI, ...
I have a thin Ethernet (10base2) segment, a thick Ethernet (10base5)
segment, a lot of Cat5e carrying 10baseT and some 100baseTX, a chunk of
FDDI, some FOIRL, 10baseF, and potentially 100baseFX, at home; and there's
lots of redundant ATM kit at work but (a) I have no room, and (b) I'd have
to buy it (which is against my religion). I also have some Econet, ISDN,
UUCP serial links, etc.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
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