Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!rutgers!mcnc!ecsvax!ugogan
From: ugogan@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (Jim Gogan)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: PhoneNet passive stars
Message-ID: <5850@ecsvax.uncecs.edu>
Date: 16 Nov 88 15:27:24 GMT
Organization: UNC - Chapel Hill
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A question about PhoneNet Passive Star topology:

I'd like to know what the most number of branches people have gotten
to work in a passive star, without having to go to a star 
controller.  (Yeah, I know the documentation says "six branches"; 
what I want to know is what REALLY works!)  In the instance we're 
looking at, each branch/trunk would go to one and only one Mac 
(except for one or two offices with a LaserWriter daisy-chained off 
that Mac).

Also, have gotten conflicting info about termination in the passive 
star.  One source has told me to terminate all branches; another 
source (and the PhoneNet documentation) says to terminate only the 
four longest branches.  What works best?  Thanks in advance.

-- Jim Gogan (ugogan@ecsvax.uncecs.edu)
   Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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     Jim Gogan                             mail:ugogan@ecsvax (UUCP/BITNET)
     Microcomputing Support Center
     University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
     Chapel Hill, NC  27599