Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!ccwf.cc.utexas.edu!awessels From: awessels@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Allen Wessels) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm Subject: Re: Appletalk Problems Message-ID: <38147@ut-emx.uucp> Date: 11 Oct 90 23:54:10 GMT References: Sender: news@ut-emx.uucp Reply-To: awessels@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Allen Wessels) Organization: The University of Texas at Austin Lines: 16 In article ph1c+@andrew.cmu.edu (Peter Nikitas Handrinos) writes: >The first thing I will do is get the network back into specs be making >it have only six branches, but I don't know why it would be working >before and then not work. And then, only the CX doesn't work. Last time I read one of the Farallon PhoneNet handbooks, they recommend no more than 4 branches on a passive star. When they talk to you in tech support, the one thing you hear over and over that nets within spec nearly always perform as expected, but with nets out of spec, all bets are off. When I first went through wiring up a PhoneNET setup back when they first came out, I had incredible numbers of problems keeping the net up. Especially when our phone people came and tried to wire the net up to a phone system configured with passive stars branching off passive stars. One node more or less could make or break the whole thing. I always dreaded any new machines coming online.