--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 193 LAN Ref: DE300001 Date: 10/02/96 From: MIKE BILOW Time: 10:46pm \/To: MICHAEL WILLARD (Read 5 times) Subj: coax cable Michael Willard wrote in a message to All: MW> What the realistic length you can run coax without running MW> into problems? An inch or two. -- Mike --- * Origin: N1BEE BBS +1 401 944 8498 V.34/V.FC/V.32bis/HST16.8 (1:323/107) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 193 LAN Ref: DE300002 Date: 10/02/96 From: MIKE BILOW Time: 10:51pm \/To: THAMIR AL-GHASLAN (Read 5 times) Subj: fddi Thamir Al-Ghaslan wrote in a message to All: TA> out of curiosity, TA> what is fddi short for? Fiber Distributed Data Interface. TA> how much does it cost? TA> a feet of fiber line, how much does it cost? FDDI is expensive. The fiber itself is not especially expensive, but the hardware necessary to use it and the highly skilled labor to install it are. TA> how fast can these fddi gizmos go? It runs 100 Mbps in one of three modes: asynchronous, synchronous, and circuit-switched. Asynchronous is commonly used for standard networking, and synchronous is often used where real-time constraints exist. TA> is there any support for it? It is a mature and widely supported technology. -- Mike --- * Origin: N1BEE BBS +1 401 944 8498 V.34/V.FC/V.32bis/HST16.8 (1:323/107) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 193 LAN Ref: DE300003 Date: 10/02/96 From: MIKE BILOW Time: 10:57pm \/To: MATT BEDYNEK (Read 5 times) Subj: Question Matt Bedynek wrote in a message to Bruce Lane: BL> Also, to handle 100Base-T reliably, your wiring -must- be CAT-5 BL> certified. MB> Already run CAT-5 though. It is a common misconception that Cat 5 cable gives you 100 Mbps bandwidth. To get high data rates, you must also use Cat 5 plugs, Cat 5 jacks, Cat 5 terminal blocks, and so on. -- Mike --- * Origin: N1BEE BBS +1 401 944 8498 V.34/V.FC/V.32bis/HST16.8 (1:323/107) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 193 LAN Ref: DE300004 Date: 10/02/96 From: MIKE BILOW Time: 11:00pm \/To: MUFUTAU TOWOBOLA (Read 5 times) Subj: CLOCK SPEED FOR AMD 586 O Mufutau Towobola wrote in a message to All: MT> Can someone tell me what is the CPU clock speed for AMD 586 MT> CPU running on Novell... I know most Intel CPU like MT> 486dx/33, 486dx/266 and 486dx4/??? all run on 33. So what is MT> it for the AMD 586? Thanks You can get the AMD 5K86 up to 133 MHz, for which the clock input is 33 MHz. They seem to work well, although I have never used one in a Novell server and doubt that I will ever again have the occasion to build a Novell file server with less than a Penium-class CPU. -- Mike --- * Origin: N1BEE BBS +1 401 944 8498 V.34/V.FC/V.32bis/HST16.8 (1:323/107) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 193 LAN Ref: DE300005 Date: 10/02/96 From: MIKE BILOW Time: 11:07pm \/To: DAVID MOHORN (Read 5 times) Subj: Subnetting IP Addresses David Mohorn wrote in a message to All: DM> Does anyone have any good explanations of how to subnet and DM> how to figure out what nodes are on a particular subnet? The IP address is a 32-bit number. We take some number of bits on the most significant side and call these "network" bits. We take some number of bits on the least significant side and call these "host" bits. Any bits left over in the middle are called "subnet" bits. The network bits are the same for all hosts in a network. The subnetwork bits are the same for all hosts in a subnetwork of that network. The host bits are always unique for each host within a network and subnetwork. Consider an easy example where we break things up on octet (8-bit) boundaries. The network is 172.16.0.0 with a netmask of 255.255.0.0. This means that the first two octets are the network bits. We choose to assign the remaining bits so that the third octet holds the subnet bits and the fourth octet holds the host bits. To the outside world, our network is accessible through one machine, and the route to it uses network 172.16.0.0 with netmask 255.255.0.0. By definition, a subnet is known only within the network, and should be invisible from outside it. To hosts within the network, however, the netmask is 255.255.255.0. This allows a host to route for its own subnet differently than for other subnets. For example, we might have a host 172.16.12.34, which would be host 34 on subnet 12. To reach host 172.16.12.35 on our own subnet, we might only need to drop a frame onto the Ethernet wire. To reach host 172.16.67.89, which is on subnet 67 rather than ours, we would need to go through a router. The essential idea behind subnetting is that the subnet bits are treated like network bits within the network and like host bits outside the network. -- Mike --- * Origin: N1BEE BBS +1 401 944 8498 V.34/V.FC/V.32bis/HST16.8 (1:323/107) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 193 LAN Ref: DE300006 Date: 10/02/96 From: MIKE BILOW Time: 11:26pm \/To: HJALMAR WHLANDER (Read 5 times) Subj: asdfr Hjalmar Whlander wrote in a message to All: HW> Hi All, i hope that you havn't run windows for the whooole HW> day.. Don't worry. HW> Ok, I have some questions. (excuse my bad english, feel free HW> to correct :) I have two machines, one running Win95, one HW> running DOS 7.0. Ofcourse (it's atleast cheap. ;) do I use HW> the internal network-program coming with Windows 95. HW> I have them connected, sharing printers, disks.. whatever.. HW> But, I would like to share the modem, how can i do? Any HW> Internetsite, ftp = WELCOME! You might look at Stomper: STPE300.ZIP 168K 4-11-96 Stomper v3.00 Modem/ISDN sharing - DOS/Windows HW> Another tingy I've been thinking about is: Why doesn't games HW> like doom2 work? It only says "Looking for a node.Getpacket: HW> ecb.Completion = 0xfd" HW> Btw, what does the "x" do in the hexcode? is it 0 * fd? HW> (=254, don't blame me if it's wrong) This is the standard notation for a hexadecimal number in the C language. That is, "0x" simply marks that the digits following, "fd", are hexadecimal. -- Mike --- * Origin: N1BEE BBS +1 401 944 8498 V.34/V.FC/V.32bis/HST16.8 (1:323/107) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 193 LAN Ref: DE300007 Date: 10/02/96 From: MIKE BILOW Time: 11:38pm \/To: FEDOR DRUZHININ (Read 5 times) Subj: Windows NT and NetWare on 386 with 8 meg23:38:0610/02/96 Fedor Druzhinin wrote in a message to Mike Bilow: MB> You cannot boot NT in less than 12 MB. You can install MB> NetWare in as little as 4 MB if you do some tricks, but it MB> should be all right in 8 MB as long as you don't have a MB> large amount of disk space to be cached. However, with MB> NetWare, you need a second machine to use as a workstation MB> so you can log into your server, or it is pretty useless. FD> Hmm.. What about a DOSBox? It gives you opportunity to run FD> the MS-DOS window on the NW server like an usual loadable FD> module. I use it, and it's really helpful. NW 2.x supported "non-dedicated" mode, but this was dropped in NW 3.x and later. Non-dedicated mode led to serious stability and security problems, oo. -- Mike --- * Origin: N1BEE BBS +1 401 944 8498 V.34/V.FC/V.32bis/HST16.8 (1:323/107) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 193 LAN Ref: DE300008 Date: 10/02/96 From: MIKE BILOW Time: 11:39pm \/To: FEDOR DRUZHININ (Read 5 times) Subj: Migrating 3.12 Fedor Druzhinin wrote in a message to Mike Bilow: BB> Is Green River not NW 5? ... Just asking :0 MB> My understanding, and this could be completely wrong, is MB> that Novell is going to demonstrate their usual marketing MB> savvy and label Green River as NW 4.2. FD> BTW, what so special about this "Green River" project? FD> Anything completely new? MB> The marquis feature is Internet and intranet integration. FD> What you mean by "integration"? Will they sell a Web server FD> in one package with NW and call it "internet integration", FD> or it will be something really new? I don't really know. They promised "integration." We'll have to wait and see. -- Mike --- * Origin: N1BEE BBS +1 401 944 8498 V.34/V.FC/V.32bis/HST16.8 (1:323/107) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 193 LAN Ref: DE300009 Date: 10/02/96 From: MIKE BILOW Time: 11:39pm \/To: GARRY WALKER (Read 5 times) Subj: In house LAN Garry Walker wrote in a message to Mike Bilow: > Now that OS/2 Warp 4 builds networking into the base product, > and there is no longer a distinction between Connect and > non-Connect GW> PMFBI, but if I understand you correctly, 4.0 GW> intrinsically provides the networking features/functions of GW> Warp Connect? And plus some, maybe? Yes. OS/2 Warp 4 essentially now comes in only the "Connect" version, with full peer networking capability built in. -- Mike --- * Origin: N1BEE BBS +1 401 944 8498 V.34/V.FC/V.32bis/HST16.8 (1:323/107) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 193 LAN Ref: DE300010 Date: 10/01/96 From: MUFUTAU TOWOBOLA Time: 07:17pm \/To: TORE HANSEN (Read 5 times) Subj: CLOCK SPEED FOR AMD 586 O