erc@cmu-cs-h.ARPA (Eric Crane) (02/27/85)
Here at CMU we have been using Proteon's proNET for a little more than a year. We will soon have 7 Tops-20 systems, 8 Vax's of different flavors (VMS or Unix, 750's or 78x's), and close to 100+ IBM PC's of various types (PC/XT/AT). The networks span 4 buildings, and use fiber for the long runs. All in all we have had few problems since we went into production with the network. Most of the ones we have had take the form of bad solder connections. We have also had some problems with IBM/PC boards (p1300) being DOA, but these are repaired with few problems. All in in all I have been happy with the network. There are others here who have not been so, but they have grown up with ethernet and tend to be set in their ways. Future plans here include bringing up an implemetation for the SUN2 workstation done by Craig Partridge of BBN Laboratories (craig@bbn-loki). Another thing that we have been working on here is a 68K based IP router. The concept of this machine was to have an affordable box that other departments here could use to connect to the university's IP network. The current implementation is still in testing, but it uses th OMNIBYTE OB68K1A board, proNET p1200, Interlan, and 3Com multibus systems. The end system will also support the Stanfod SUMAX applebus interface for the Multibus. The software is a port of the CMU-Router code to the Multibus/OMNIBYTE enviorment, so it supports GGP, EGP, ICMP, and ARP. - Eric R. Crane Carnegie-Mellon Univ Computation Center ARPA: Eric.Crane@CMU-CC-TE