From: Ivo Simicevic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On Thu, Jun 10, 1999 at 12:17:10AM +0200, Karl Kramer wrote:
> > From: "Gerd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > > Yes, but - how do you connect e.g. such a cheap RealTek PC NIC to,
> > > let's say, a TNC2?
> >
> > By buying an Ethernet<>RS232 adapter and pluging it on the TNC2.
>
> Sorry if I missed something, but what's the point to connect TNC2 to a
> high speed Ethernet? Don't you have serial ports available?
No, as you still see in the Subject someone brought up the Idea to build TNC's for
USB-Ports. I think that building new USB-hardware is crap, as USB is just one more
IRQ-eater but offers nothing that is not coverd by the classic fast ports: Ethernet
and
FireWire.
Someone else came to the side-question of what to do with old hardware when
establishing a fast bus-system for external devices, so I just informed that for
Ethernet
this is just plug and play.
But yes: it is easy to run out of ports in a shack until you implement some sort of
port-
multiplication.
Lets say you have:
-1 Internet-Modem
-a Shortwave-TNC
-a Highspeed-TNC
-a rotor-Interface
-a Tranceiver contol-Bus
-Videorecoder-Interface
-a weather-measurement station
so how to connect thiese without some sort of dataswitch ?
Just do it like CERN (where the Web was born): by Ethernet.
Doing it this way you also have no problem to share resurces or to get the
components you need.
73, Karl
