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- From: tcora@PICA.ARMY.MIL (Tom Coradeschi)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
- Subject: Multiple atalk->enet gateways
- Message-ID: <9212181602.aa21420@claudius.pica.army.mil>
- Date: 18 Dec 92 21:02:34 GMT
- Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
- Distribution: world
- Organization: Electric Armts Div, US Army ARDEC, Picatinny Arsenal, NJ
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- Kinda vague subject line, but...
-
- I'm planning our networking layout for a building we'll be moving into
- sometime next fall. The whole place will be wired for 10bT, and I have the
- option of tying each workstation (fancy name for a desk) into either the
- ethernet hub or an appletalk hub (via RJ45 patch cables). There will be
- ~50 desks in the place, mostly using appletalk.
-
- What I've been considering, very strongly, is to use GatorStar GX's. That
- gives me 24 ports, and there are "x4" interfaces available, so I can do
- the whole building with roughly no more than 2 macs/port. Not bad.
- However, I see the amount of traffic thru the GatorStar climbing pretty
- dramatically - the overall networking strategy at our site seems to be
- pointing toward file and application servers, most of which will live on
- the ethernet side of things, so I may end up choking off my gateway.
-
- I can solve that by using two GatorStars, w/ ~1 device/port. Lower atalk
- loads, lower gateway loads.
-
- My question: If I want all the Macs to be able to talk to each other,
- what's the best way to accomplish that? Do I IP tunnel from one Gator to
- the other, even tho they're likely to reside in the same rack? Can I link
- them together via atalk (doesn't seem likely, but I'm no expert)?
-
- Email or post, and thanks!
-
- tom coradeschi <+> tcora@pica.army.mil
-
- PS: Another idea is to go wild buying ethernet cards, but I'm not sure I
- want to do that. Am I wrong?
-