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In article <1993Jan19.211049.7041@news.acns.nwu.edu> tracy@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Phil Tracy) writes:
>Hi,
>
>I'm looking for some war stories, positive or negative, preferably
>impartial, about hooking up Macs to Novell networks using the new
>token ring drivers that have appeared in the last few months.
>
>I have only 1 or 2 Macs to connect to an existing token ring.  I don't
>think it makes sense to wire an ethernet of 2 macs and 1 server, so I
>thought I'd check with the NetFolks and see what you all think about
>Mac Token Ring.  Does it work?  Well?  Does is stink?  What do you think?
>Thanks!  I'll summarize responses if any indicates any interest.
>
>    - Phil
>
>
I run T/R networks with about 100 Macs, from SE/30s up to Quadras, using DCA's MacIRMAtrak T/R board.  I have had no major problems to speak of, and DCA has been very good about upgrading their drivers to work with variuos appletalk releases, ARA, etc. I have had more problems with NW-Mac, but 3.011 seems to have fixed many of those.

As far as adding an ethernet branch to your network, you might consider one for adding communications/printing services, which are much more plentiful/cheaper than their T/R equivalents.

--Bob



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Bob Matsuoka 
New Lab for Teaching and Learning