--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 193 LAN Ref: EBQ00006 Date: 07/21/97 From: SCOTT PARKS Time: 06:46am \/To: MIKE BILOW (Read 5 times) Subj: Jumpers on Network Adapter Mike Bilow wrote in a message to Scott Parks: MB> Thin Ethernet can go as long as 200 meters, roughly 600 MB> feet. How quickly I forget ... after building my backbone last fall! Guess I can go around the block again ;) Scott Parks sparks@helix.eskimo.com --- GEcho 1.11+ * Origin: Helix BBS - Support National Public Radio (1:343/70) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 193 LAN Ref: EBQ00007 Date: 07/20/97 From: CHUMA AGBODIKE Time: 08:08pm \/To: ALL (Read 5 times) Subj: Patch cord What is a patch cord? I thought that it was the cord that goes from a work station to the hub in a LAN. And while you are at it is there any CAT 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 for Shielded Twisted Pair (STP) cable? Chuma Internet Email address: chuma@pacbell.net --- Msged 4.00 * Origin: Third World, Sunland, Ca. (818) 951-9603 (1:102/803) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 193 LAN Ref: EBR00000 Date: 07/21/97 From: RICK SVYZEK Time: 03:55pm \/To: ALL (Read 5 times) Subj: Modem redirect solution? Help please? I got a 486SX-25 w/8Meg of RAM running a BBS. A 486DX-33 w/32Meg of RAM being my main work computer. And a 486SX-25 w/8Meg of RAM, Laptop To acsses all this from my bedside. (to be with my wife) Running Windows for workgroups on all machines. Using intel 4/16 ethernet cards. This network is very stable with file acsses, transfer, and multi tasking. My problem that I need a solution to is this: I want to acsses my modem on my main computer from my laptop upstairs. Dose WfWG have this featuer? Is there a good program to do this out there? Any help is welcome. Thanks for your time. Rick ... Thought links corrupted....Reformat brain (Y\N)? ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12 --- PCBoard (R) v15.4 (OS/2) 5 Beta * Origin: PandA's Den BBS * Danvers, MA * 508-750-0250 (1:330/204) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 193 LAN Ref: EBR00001 Date: 07/09/97 From: ANDREW SEEGER Time: 02:24pm \/To: NEIL CROFT (Read 5 times) Subj: Peer-Peer Network Suggestions. Greetings Neil! Wednesday July 02 1997 07:27, Neil Croft wrote to Andrew Seeger: AS>> OS/2 can see the Win95 system, it just needed to be prodded! I am AS>> very NC> It's usually the other way around here. It was quite funny, when i set things up, it took me a while to get W95 to look at OS/2, but once i got over that hurdle, it took me longer to work out why OS/2 could not see W95. I will just put it down at this stage to lack of knowledge, after all it was the first time i had tried this. I have played around with networks a while back, but nothing like i am doing now. AS>> machines are communicating via netbios. I am not game at this AS>> stage to try netbios over tcp/ip :-) NC> Don't hope to route netbios in the future then. (I know, it's NC> incredibly unlikely but every major network started somewhere.) I do want to get TCP/IP going, as i need to learn more about such things, it has me intrigued in any case. I will be having a bash at it very soon :-) Regards, Andrew. --- FMail/386 1.22 * Origin: Enterprise, Langwarrin, Vic, Aust, +61-3-9776-7089 (3:632/158) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 193 LAN Ref: EBR00002 Date: 07/12/97 From: ROWAN_CROWE Time: 01:23pm \/To: JOHNATHAN LOGGIE (Read 5 times) Subj: Novell TCP/IP API * Johnathan Loggie writes to All, on Sunday July 06 1997 at 13:56: JL> I have Novell's 32-bit dos client installed along with the TCPIP.NLM JL> and wish to write a BBS telnet door which uses the API provied my JL> TCPIP.NLM (which is the same as the TCPIP.EXE for 16-bit clients) JL> However I have had no luck in finding any documentation on this. JL> Novell's netware SDK does not contain any help. I've had similar luck (ie: none) with finding documentation on the API. I did a few net searches as well to see if I could turn anything up, but no go. JL> Another option would be to use the WATTCP stack, but thats old and JL> can't be multitasked easily. The Trumpet ABI stack is also an JL> alternative, but not as stable and more memory hungry than TCPIP.NLM I don't program in C so I can't use WATTCP, I have however used the Trumpet TCPABI stack (wrote a WWW server and an IRC client) and I agree with you, it is rather unstable. 95% of my hard lockups (0-2 per day typically) can be directly attributed to that program. There's not much choice though... Cheers. PS: If you have access to DOS_INTERNET, it might be a good idea to ask in there too. ... rowan@sensation.net.au | http://www.rowan.sensation.net.au/ --- * Origin: Sensation: Melbourne AUSTRALIA. (3:635/728.1) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 193 LAN Ref: EBR00003 Date: 07/12/97 From: ROWAN_CROWE Time: 01:26pm \/To: MIKE BILOW (Read 5 times) Subj: Novell TCP/IP API * Mike Bilow writes to Johnathan Loggie, on Tuesday July 08 1997 at 03:56: JL>> Another option would be to use the WATTCP stack, but thats JL>> old and can't be multitasked easily. The Trumpet ABI stack JL>> is also an alternative, but not as stable and more memory JL>> hungry than TCPIP.NLM MB> Trumpet is basically a Winsock API. You can get full documentation on MB> Winsock from Microsoft over the Internet at no charge. Just to clarify: Johnathan was talking about a *DOS* TCP stack, which evolved into Trumpet Winsock. Did you misunderstand what Johnathan meant, or do you mean the DOS Trumpet TCPABI stack API is similar to the Winsock API? If the latter, then I could probably adapt my DOS TCPABI programs to work under Windows. Cheers. ... rowan@sensation.net.au | http://www.rowan.sensation.net.au/ --- * Origin: Sensation: Melbourne AUSTRALIA. (3:635/728.1) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 193 LAN Ref: EBR00004 Date: 07/22/97 From: MIKE BILOW Time: 05:02am \/To: CHUMA AGBODIKE (Read 5 times) Subj: Patch cord Chuma Agbodike wrote in a message to All: CA> What is a patch cord? I thought that it was the cord that CA> goes from a work station to the hub in a LAN. A patch cord is a generic term for a short cable, usually only a few feet. The term comes from the old telephone system which used a plugboard to "patch" connections between stations: each subscriber would have a jack somewhere on a massive plugboard and could be connected to the jack of any other subscriber by using an appropriate chain of "patch" cords. In networking, a "patch" cord is usually a short run of cable between a workstation and a wall jack, or between a punch-down block and a concentrator. These can often be purchased already assembled into standard 3-foot, 6-foot, and 10-foot lengths. In the U.S. and Canada, cable insulation must meet more stringent fire protection standards for exposed lengths greater than 10 feet. You will occasionally run into cable explicitly designated for "patch" use, which indicates that it should be used only for such short lengths. Explicitly designated "patch" cabling will be stranded instead of solid and will also have a special color scheme adopted from the telephone industry using solid instead of striped colors: Patch Cable Horizontal Cable Pair 1 Green/Red White-Blue/Blue Pair 2 Black/Yellow White-Orange/Orange Pair 3 Blue/Orange White-Green/Green Pair 4 Brown/White White-Brown/Brown CA> And while you are at it is there any CAT 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 for CA> Shielded Twisted Pair (STP) cable? No, STP cable is usually specified by reference to IBM SNA. Let's step back a moment: what exactly are you trying to find out? -- 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: EBS00000 Date: 07/20/97 From: MARCO VAN DEN BOVENKAMP Time: 11:06pm \/To: SAMI HULT (Read 5 times) Subj: Jumpers on Network Adapter Hello Sami! Saturday 19. July 1997 20:32, Sami Hult wrote to All: SH> everywhere, but I still want to ask it. Well, all I want to know is, how SH> long could thin-ethernet cable be. I want to make a little LAN between e SH> and my friend, and there is about 120 meters for it. That's within specs; the maximum lenght of 10Base2 is 185 meters. /\/\arco. --- * Origin: DMRT Board Two! - Movin' them bits at 64.000 bps! - (2:512/101) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 193 LAN Ref: EBS00001 Date: 07/21/97 From: BILL DENNISON Time: 11:19pm \/To: MIKE BILOW (Read 5 times) Subj: Jumpers on Network Adapte -> Thin Ethernet can go as long as 200 meters, roughly 600 feet. Technically 185 meters, but who's counting? Of course, one good office chair planted or rolled over the cabling will drastically shorten the useful distance. Bill D. in Phila, PA --- ViaMAIL!/WC4 v1.30 * Origin: Fidonet * Storm Front BBS (215)788-4662 v.34+ (1:273/60) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 193 LAN Ref: EBS00002 Date: 07/21/97 From: JEROEN VAN KALKEN Time: 10:27am \/To: JAMES HOLDERMAN (Read 5 times) Subj: Arachne Dos The homepage for arachne on internet is: http://www.naf.cz/arachne/ Arachne is graphical WWW browser for DOS compatible operating systems. It requires i8086 compatible CPU, 450 kB (575 with PPP) of DOS memory and SVGA or VESA vido card. In lower quality runs even on standart VGA,EGA and CGA cards. Arachne supports HTML/3.2. Developed by xChaos software. The package includes freeware PPP dialer, MPEG and WAV players, etc. * Origin: Earth: mostly harmless (2:500/20.1974)