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From: rich@eddie.MIT.EDU (Richard Caloggero)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Putting an Aliant on the ring
Message-ID: <7346@eddie.MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 4-Nov-87 14:41:51 EST
Article-I.D.: eddie.7346
Posted: Wed Nov  4 14:41:51 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 7-Nov-87 10:26:34 EST
Organization: MIT EE/CS Computer Facility, Cambridge, MA
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Keywords: Aliant, Ringnet, Ethernet, NFS.



     We recently acquired an Aliant FX8.  We wish to fit the Alicnt
into our Apollo ring.  As we see it, we have a choice among the
following options:

     1). We could configure all of our Apollo nodes (DN3000's) to use
     Ethernet as the main network (replace the ring controller with an
Ethernet board and get the new rev. of the boot prom).  This seems to
imply to me that the Aliant will then look like another node, and if we
run NFS, the file system will then be homogeneous throughout the
environment.  To what extent is this true?

     2). We could configure one DN3000 as a gateway between the ring
and the ethernet. This would allow us to interact with the Aliant via
the normal telnet/rlogin etc. utilities, and allow file transfers,
however, seems to me that the file systems cannot be made homogeneous,
even if NFS runs on both the ringnet and the ethernet. Is this true?

     3). Does anyone out there have any other suggestions?

     Thank you for your time; I will summarize any responses any post
the results.




						-- Rich