jqj@oregon.uoregon.edu (J Q Johnson) (01/19/89)
As EtherTalk starts to be popular on campus networks it becomes more important to have high performance EtherTalk to EtherTalk routers. Who makes such beasts, and how well do they perform? JQ Johnson Internet: jqj@oregon.uoregon.edu Director of Network Services BITNET: jqj@oregon Office of University Computing UUCP: ...!uoregon!jqj University of Oregon voice: 503-686-4394 Eugene, OR 97403
lloyd@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu (Lloyd W. Taylor) (01/20/89)
In article <175@oregon.uoregon.edu> jqj@oregon.uoregon.edu (J Q Johnson) writes: >As EtherTalk starts to be popular on campus networks it becomes more >important to have high performance EtherTalk to EtherTalk routers. Who >makes such beasts, and how well do they perform? > > JQ Johnson Internet: jqj@oregon.uoregon.edu > Director of Network Services BITNET: jqj@oregon > University of Oregon voice: 503-686-4394 cisco Systems will shortly be offering EtherTalk routing on their multi-protocol routers. They will not support physical connections to LocalTalk (you'll still need your Kinetics/Cayman/Dove Boxes!!), but it should help solve the "no more than 254 ethernet-attached AppleTalk devices per ethernet" problem. Contact cisco at (415) 326-1941 for more info. The EtherTalk routing software is still in testing, and will (hopefully) be in my hands shortly. If there's interest (and my beta-test agreement allows it), I'll post a report on performance and capabilities when the testing is done. (My only connection with cisco is that I've been beating on them to provide EtherTalk routing for some time now to solve the problem that Apple should have fixed at least a year ago!) -- Lloyd Taylor Telecomm/Datacomm Manager Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Lab lloyd@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu uunet!mimsy!aplcen!lloyd
Ravinder.Chandhok@CS.CMU.EDU (Rob Chandhok) (01/20/89)
It seems to me that in most cases using a LAN Bridge would be sufficient for partitioning a large ethertalk network. This has the added benefit that you can also run other protocol families (like TCP/IP) on the same ethernet cables. Putting in an Ethertalk specific router reduces you to having an ethertalk only cable plant. Rob