Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!ginosko!uunet!cos!andrews From: andrews@cos.com (Andrew R. Scholnick) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: ppn/NET: binaries sent to the moderator Summary: Switchboxes? Message-ID: <22780@cos.com> Date: 26 Sep 89 21:36:40 GMT References: <8909220252.AA16396@postgres.Berkeley.EDU> Organization: Corporation for Open Systems, McLean, VA Lines: 31 In article <8909220252.AA16396@postgres.Berkeley.EDU>, dillon@POSTGRES.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) writes: > :This really sounds awsome! I have a question that may be of general > :interest, though. How far apart can the two Amiga's be? My Amigas [...] > :If 50ft of cable won't work, I guess I'll just have to rearrange the > :furniture! This stuff sounds too good to pass up. [...] > : Thanks, > : BradCh > I really don't know. You can try it though! 50ft is a lot > of cable. This isn't like a serial cable which has at least [...] > -Matt How about this, could I safely use a switchbox (one which passes all pins) to go between printer and network use? (what would I need to do to make this work besides kill the network on the printer-Amiga's end?) Will the amiga left with no-one on the other end of the net hang, or just eat some cpu time trying to resynch? The machine with the printer would be the "server" (if such a concept is valid here). Thanks. ARS. -- - Andrew R. Scholnick @ Corp. for Open Systems, McLean, VA -- andrews@cos.com - {uunet, sundc, decuac}!cos!andrews -- Everything I write blame on me, NOT -- my employer. - "Adventure is when you toss your life on the scales of -- chance and wait for the pointer to stop." - M. Leinster (First Contact)