While the primary purpose of the work Martin and others are doing as specifically relates to VCF is getting modern hardwired networking for museum management, there are other things in the works. The work done recently brings our building network into this century. Things like smart outlets, the security cameras and remote login to our server are part of our upgrade process and not specifically to network our collection but better manage the museum, collection and resources (like electrical usage) As to other work, Evan and others have been planning a dialup bbs setup in the museum with multiple machines able to “dial in” to it, but it never seemed to get beyond the planning stages for a variety of reasons. We plan to build from that foundation and get those system up in the near future as well. As to networking other machines, as Martin pointed out there is some capability already in place with one of the routers but Andy and others have already talked about other networking possibilities. With 5 of us (well 4 since Evans sudden departure but the SC will be 5 again as quickly as possible plus elections for two seats by Festivus 2020) we are working on multiple projects simultaneously that just were not feasible when most of the weight was on one persons shoulders. Tony Bogan Sent from my iPhone
On Dec 22, 2019, at 7:22 AM, Martin Flynn via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
On 12/21/2019 10:18 PM, Derrik Walker v2.0 via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
On 12/21/19 8:21 PM, Martin Flynn via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
For those interested, The physical layer is Ethernet over coax, (MOCA 2.0 protocol) at 1GB between the new data rack in 9010B to the core in Building 9059.
Darn. I was thinking it was the old Thinnet and maybe you were going to bring out some of the Vampire Taps or something cool like that.
So much for vintage computer networking.
One of the Cisco router in the rack has the necessary 15 pin AUI port, see VCF managment if you want to develop a plan to a deply this tech...