Re: SD: Networking - tell me about it

Re: SD: Networking - tell me about it

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• Subject: Re: SD: Networking - tell me about it
• From: Grant Stockly <gussie@stockly.com>
• Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 11:51:58 -0900
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>Yes, I remember some sort of protocol designed. I
>think the best thing for this is more like a LAN
>system. Have everyone hook up to a hub, and have one
>calc dedicated to dishing IP's. Wing (of TCPA) and I
>have been discussing this concept for quite a while,
>we just don't have the engineering experience to make
>it work. The server calc would ONLY be used for IP
>assignment, so an 82 could work for that.

You don't need anything in charge of IPs.  Have a calc start at 0 and try
to contact a calc.  If no contact can be made, in say 10 tries, then use
the address.

Design another layer similar to ARP to find out what calcs are at what
address and another layer similar to discover.

Grant

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