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Article #5965geographically distributed localtalk
From: P Tyers
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 1989 08:12
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 1989 08:12
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I'm mailing this on behalf of my old school and would appreciate some help.
A number of rural Australian secondary schools have banded together to
present computer science classes over a distributed network of Macintoshes.
They are interconnected by a voice repeater system (ie not a digipeater) and
radio modems along with netcomm r-bridges (seemably appletalk to rs232 low
speed bridges). Diagram below shows approximate configuration
Where MAC represents about 5 Macintoshes on appletalk.
MAC--RBRIDGE--MODEM--TX----------------------------------------
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MAC--RBRIDGE--MODEM--TX------------------------------------| |
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REPEATER
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MAC--RBRIDGE--MODEM--TX------------------------------------- |
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MAC--RBRIDGE--MODEM--TX----------------------------------------
This configuration was proposed to them by a "consultant" and while it works
on a point to point basis blows up when used in a fully networked
configuration. The blow up seems to occur because the r-bridges get most
confused when they see signals from greater than one other r-bridge (as
might be expected!).
The schools own the MAC's and the radio system, they can ditch the modems
and the r-bridges.
Has anyone successfully networked MAC's over a distributed radio system, if
so, can you mail me the configuration and manufacturers names please?
Many thanks in advance.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!murtoa.cs.mu.oz.au!bruce!trlluna!tyers From: tyers@trlluna.trl.oz (P Tyers) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk Subject: geographically distributed localtalk Keywords: appletalk at a distance, radio networks Message-ID: <698@trlluna.trl.oz> Date: 5 Jun 89 08:12:30 GMT Organization: Telecom Research Labs,IPF,Melbourne, Australia Lines: 42