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From: marshall@wind55.seri.gov (Marshall L. Buhl)
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Subject: Re: Seeking info on Lantastic...
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Date: 2 Feb 90 20:38:49 GMT
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dean@image.soe.clarkson.edu (Dean Swan) writes:

>From article <10595@saturn.ucsc.edu>, by lance@helios.ucsc.edu (Lance Bresee):
>   We use that here.  It is OK.  One machine has to be designated
>   as host, and any shared devices must be physical devices on
>   the host.  You can connect as many machines as you want.  We
>   chose it because of cost and low memory overhead.

>Not true.  LANtastic does support full peer-to-peer capability.
>It is unfortunately, not routable, and Artisoft (from what I've been
>told) has no plans to make it so.

I'm planning on ordering this next week.  What do you mean by "routable?"
A dealer said it didn't support file shipping between non-servers.  The
dealer seemed to think it is possible to temporarily make yourself a server
without rebooting.  This helps, but is less than perfect.  Is that what you
mean?

One dealer recommended using Western Digital Ethernet boards instead of the
Artisoft boards.  He said the drivers were optimized for those boards.  We
use 3Com boards for our TCP/IP network.  Is it worth switching to WD?

I need to get this LAN set up and shipped to the field by the end of the
month.  Unfortunately, I keep coming up with more questions and options.
Am I kidding myself about being able to accomplish this?
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