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- From: pjb@hss.caltech.edu (Paul Brewer)
- Subject: internet bridging of token rings
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- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 10:26:29 GMT
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- In our economics lab at caltech we have some software that implements
- an auction over a ibm token-ring network of 20 machines in the room.
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- The token ring is really overkill for the software data requirements.
- The software uses token ring datagrams to carry market information to
- participants and bids/offers from participants to each other and to
- the monitor station where it is put on disk.
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- A number of these systems have popped up, based on our design. I am
- interested in linking 2, or more , via internet. We have a 486 that has
- both a token ring and an ethernet cart.
-
- Has anyone written software which will receive token ring datagrams,
- encapsulate them and send them over internet, and do the reverse,
- so that the token rings could be linked.
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- Note that session support is NOT needed here. That would be complicated.
- I know how to write software for the token ring. If this hasnt been done,
- (who/where might I ask to see if it has??), how hard is it to program the
- ethernet side?
-
- Paul
- pjb@hss.caltech.edu
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