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LAN ACCESS CONFIGURATION
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Within the past year or two, there has been speculation the next upward trend
in packet will be users switching from 1200 to 9600 baud. Momentum will
increase in this area now that variations of the G3RUH modem have proved to
be workable and readily available. Additionally, groups using the lower-cost
K9NG modem have publicized their success.
In anticipation of this trend, network planners should consider adding 9600
baud LAN nodes to their systems. Besides being a logical means toward paving
the way to the day where most users will be operating at higher speeds, a
9600 baud LAN node would have other benefits as well. One of the problems of
having a high-speed backbone trunk with low speed LAN interfaces is that of
"traffic choking". This occurs when a high volume server such as a BBS
transmits traffic through its 1200 baud LAN into the higher speed network and
then out on a 1200 baud LAN to another user. Assuming the traffic gets sent
out into the network OK, excessive delay at the receiving end can cause a
circuit failure due to traffic choking at the distant end.
At the receiving end of this circuit, various factors can contribute to the
bottleneck. Other than the LAN channel just being overloaded with legitimate
inter and intra LAN user traffic, a lack of a reasonable LAN user policy may
create traffic overloads due to too many beacons, BBSes, node overhead, etc.
Addition of a secondary LAN access node operating at 9600 baud would tend to
encourage higher volume traffic users/servers to migrate to that node. This
of course would not necessarily be in the same frequency band as the 1200
baud LAN channel.
Factors influencing a frequency/band decision would revolve around the number
and frequency of other radios co-located at the LAN site, plus the outcome of
assignment of a frequency from the appropriate frequency coordinator. Assuming
the 1200 baud LAN channel is on a two meter frequency, a logical choice for the
9600 baud LAN frequency might be in the 223 MHz range. Figure 10-1 shows how
a typical LAN configuration would appear.
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UHF
Backbone trunk |---------------| Backbone trunk
<=========================> | Backbone Node | <=======================>
|---------------|
| |
145.09 MHz | | 223.42 MHz
|-----------| | | |-----------|
| 1200 baud |-------' `-------| 9600 baud |
| LAN Node | | LAN Node |
|-----------| |-----------|
Users include BBS, Users include BBS fwding,
DXCluster ports and TCP/IPers, DXCluster links
keyboarders. and keyboarders.
Note: Normally the nodes would be co-located at the same site. Frequencies
shown are for illustration only.
Figure 10-1
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