On Wednesday, April 10, 2002, at 02:26 PM, Scott Holder wrote:
> Although I'm hardly a networking guru, I'd say it's more of a ring than
> anything else as far as the original Localtalk goes. Originally, there
> were
> little Localtalk boxes that plugged into a serial port and then you used
> either DIN-3 or Phone cables (depending on the connector) to connect the
> Macs in a ring.
Localtalk PhoneNet is a Peer-to-Peer network toplogy, terminated at each
end. I don't know whether it can be used as a ring.
Serial Localtalk over serial cables is direct link.
> With Ethertalk, it's fairly standard Ethernet star topology.
What topology you use for EtherTalk is up to what system you use for
cabling and what your machines are equipped with. RJ45/Cat5/10BaseT
network is star topology but 10Base2/BNC is Peer-to-Peer terminated
which to the best of my knowledge will not tolerate being used as a
ring. You can also use TokenTalk if you feel like setting up a Token
Ring topolgy network but they are the biggest pain in the ass going.
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