Hello Hal!
28 Oct 97 20:10, Hal Roney wrote to Jonathan Hunter:
 JH>> How far, just out of interest?
 HR> Oh man. I was afraid you'd ask.  This is the only topology that's
 HR> SPECed in FEET and the one I always forget as well.  I think
 HR> it's....2000' from active hub to W/S or hub, and 100' from pasive hub
 HR> to W/S, and a total of 20,000'. So, given enough active hubs (they act
 HR> as repeaters and passive hubs do not) a little better than 3.5 MILES
 HR> or about 6 KiloMeters. IE. a LONG way away, for a LAN!
:-))) I've now got as far as getting my "development" box up and running with 
Arcnet and Ethernet cards in it, but I'm now stuck on the physical cabling 
side for Arcnet.. Do I use T-pieces and terminators, as in Ethernet??
So far, the green light on the card (LINK?) is on permanently, but the red 
light (DATA??) just flashes every second or so :-( BTW - there are no other 
machines on this LAN yet..
 JH>> "development" Linux box, with Arcnet and Ethernet cards in, so I'll
 JH>> use that a router between the two networks.
 HR> Sounds COOL!  On paper anyway.
I hope it will be... An interesting experiment, anyway, and possibly useful 
if I ever want a network link to next door or something (probably too far for 
Ethernet).
 HR> Getting the servers to SEE each other sounds easy, but what lets the
 HR> UNIX workstations use the files off the NW server and vice-versa?
 HR> NFS?  (how much does THAT cost?)   Or does the Linux distribution come
 HR> with a solve?
Linux can use something called "ncpfs" - NCP file system. That enables it to 
mount Netware volumes and servers directly into the filesystem tree. It's one 
of the reasons I'm staying with Linux, rather than moving to FreeBSD or 
similar!
Jonathan 
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