Re: Help!!!!

[Ryan Matteson <x96matteson@xxxxxxxxx>]

Chris Strandt wrote:
> 
> I'm quite new to linux, and I'm between a rock and a hard place at the
> moment.  I'd like to give a little background to setup what I'm try to do
> here, so please bear with me.
> 
> I work for Northville Public Schools, in the Educational Technology Center.
> 
> In the last year we have added 90 nodes to our existing 16MB Token Ring
> Network (all this is at our high school).  We are in the process of
> upgrading a large part of our network.
> 
> Problem is about once a day our network freezes... and honestly, we can't
> tell why. We then have to shut down over 120 computers, and reset our 3
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Is this during a heavy traffic time???????????????? I have seen
some odd things happen when everyone wants to capture that token,
and the network can come to a crawl. Also how many apps are you
running from your Novell Server and not local??

> Olicom TokenRing switches.  Even though we basically "reboot" our entire
> ring, this doesn't always work... Today we had to do this 4 times (a major
> pain considering that we are doing finals).
> 
> We have run LANalyzer (a Novell Diagnostic Software) to try and find any bad
> token ring cards and so one, with no great headway.
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Do you have MAC addresses listed somewhere?? Cause when I used to
use Lanalyzer I saw nothing but MAC address listed. I hope you
got IP installed and can plug in a laptop and read arp queries.

> 
> The reason I'm posting on a Linux Mailing List... I want to setup a Linux
> Router, and isolate a section of our network (our primary labs).
> 
> But I have never done this.  I have seen that Linux works great w/ Ethernet,
> but have not seen a whole lot of TokenRing support.... does Linux support
> TokenRing Cards (if so.. any specific ones?)
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Most available on the market today check out www.redhat.com and
check there Hardware compatibiliy list

> 
> Secondly... does Linux support IPX RIP routing?  To do this, I will have to
> create a separate Network "Segment" (network address)... right??
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Yes There is a product available and I would never use Linux for
this devious purpose, although that is my opinion I am an IP guy.

> 
> And also, I'll need to do IP RIP routing.  My problem is this.  The router
> will not be routing from a clear cut Subnet to Subnet...it will be part of a
> subnet to another part of a subnet to be exact.  And I'll have multiple
> subnets on the same network segment (We have multiple internet connections
> using different subnets).
> 
> I guess what I want to know... is this worth my time... and is it even
> possible?  Would anyone be willing to help out.. I'm sorry I can't pay
> anyone to do this at this time.
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All this is feasible and worthwhile depending on the knowledge
you have of UNIX. If you are strapped for cash then a low budget
Linux router would make sense. I am not sure that anyone would
take a headache on like this for free, doesn't your school
contract out like most others?? There might be a taker though you
never know.

> 
> Does anyone actually know of a company that specializes in TokenRing??
> 
> -Chris Strandt

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