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From: bkc@omnigate.clarkson.edu (Brad Clements)
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Subject: Re:  RVD (was: PD PC-NFS)
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Date: 16 Oct 90 13:48:17 GMT
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Clarkson used RVD for a year to network public PCs to a disk server. 

We used our MVaxII as a server, a specially hacked packet driver
multiplexor (not recommended for the faint of heart) and a special custom
config.sys driver that allowed the RVD disk functions to be loaded as a 
TSR rather than all in the device driver. This combined with our BootP
eprom for booting diskless PCs gave us a fair imitation of a LAN.

This setup was quite fun, except when it came time to update the files on
the disks (once a day in some cases), thats when all users had to be kicked off
the 'system'.  After much grumbling from the users, and lots of timeouts
(the protocol wasn't very robust), we finally moved to Novell (probably should
have done this in the first place, after a cost analysis).

Anyway, it was fun.


| Brad Clements          bkc@omnigate.clarkson.edu        bkc@clutx.bitnet 
| Sr. Network Engineer   Clarkson University              (315)268-2292