Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!munnari.oz.au!csc.anu.oz.au!csc3.anu.oz.au!anucsd!antares!steve From: steve@antares.anu.oz.au (Steven Ball) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk Subject: Re: Multiport Localtalk Router Message-ID: Date: 24 Sep 90 00:11:33 GMT References: <6333@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> Sender: news@anucsd.anu.oz.au (USENET News software) Organization: ANU Department of Computer Science Lines: 68 km@mathcs.emory.edu (Ken Mandelberg) writes: >Does anyone make a multiport localtalk router? What do they cost >roughly? Yes, Webster Computer Corporation produce the MultiGate. The MultiGate functions similarly to a Kinetics FastPath bu has four localtalk ports instead of just one. The four localtalk ports are bridged together, as well as being gated onto the ethernet. In Australia the MultiGate costs about $4000, roughly the same as a KBox. (At least, last time I priced one :-) I have no idea how they cost in the US. >I know you can get this effect by putting a kinetics box on each >segment and connecting the boxes with ethernet, but I want something >less expensive. The MultiGate will do this for four localtalk segments, with the added bonus of being able to do what you're describing above for >4 segments. At the ANU we have over 20 MultiGates on our campus-wide ethernet, that's over 80 localtalk segments. >I really do want a router though, not just a multiport repeater. The >idea is to keep local traffic local. It really is a router. >-- >Ken Mandelberg | km@mathcs.emory.edu PREFERRED >Emory University | {rutgers,gatech}!emory!km UUCP >Dept of Math and CS | km@emory.bitnet NON-DOMAIN BITNET >Atlanta, GA 30322 | Phone: (404) 727-7963 Webster posted their sales e-mail address (sorry 'bout the mail barrage Tom!) Here it is for those who missed it: Webster Computer Corporation 2109 O'Toole Ave. Suite J, San Jose CALIFORNIA CA 95131-1303 USA Phone (408) 954-8054 FAX (408) 954 1832 EMAIL wcc@cup.portal.com Webster Computer Corporation Europe Unit 7, Weltech Centre, Ridgeway, Welwyn Garden City, Herts, AL7 2AA, U.K. Phone +44 (707) 336969 FAX +44 (707) 373378 Webster Computer Corporation Australia 1270 Ferntree Gully Road, Melbourne 3179, Victoria Australia Phone +61 (3) 764 1100 FAX +61 (3) 764 1179 EMAIL multigate@wcc.oz.au Steven Ball, Department of Computer Science, ANU E-mail: steve@anucsd.anu.oz.au Ph. (06) 2495147 Snail-mail: GPO Box 4, CANBERRA CITY ACT 2600, AUSTRALIA He's not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy! -- Steven Ball, Department of Computer Science, ANU E-mail: steve@anucsd.anu.oz.au Ph. (06) 2495147 Snail-mail: GPO Box 4, CANBERRA CITY ACT 2600, AUSTRALIA He's not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy!