scot@amigash.UUCP (Scot L. Harris) (10/06/89)
A friend would like to be able to network A500s to a central A2000 if
possible, using the A2000 has a kind of file server. He asked me if
I knew of anything that would allow that and I said I would check around.
I know Ameristar puts out an ethernet board for the A2000, but when I
talked with them the first part of this year they had no plans to produce
an A500 version. Has this situation changed? I also understood at that
time that they did not have peer to peer (sp?) capability, again has
this been addressed yet?
The only other options that I could come up with was to outfit the A2000
with multiple serial ports and use dnet and NET:. Which BTW are running
on amigash and slhamiga quite nicely! (thanks Matt! Now I need to get
a second serial port so I can keep the modem connected.) From reading the
docs I believe the serial port can be specified but I am not sure if
it will support multiple ports simultaneously.
The other item was another program called NET: discussed here on the net
which used the parallel port instead of the serial port. Did this allow for
multiple systems to be networked and what is the current status of that
project?
If possible please direct responses to the email address below. While I
get ALL the amiga groups I sometimes run a few weeks behind in processing
it all. :-)
Thanks!
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