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> I didn't go through and check out the link but what is happening in
Scott's
> diagram below is that the Bay Centillion 100 Switch is serving the purpose
> of the MAU/Hub for insertion into the ring. The Centillion
> Switch allows for each port to be it's own ring. (please correct me if
I'm
> wrong there Scott)
You got it spot on, Ed. The rings are created on the backplane of Bay 5000
series concentrators. The first port of the first blade on each ring is
uplinked to a C100 TR switch port. Our routers are also connected to switch
ports with a unique ring number. For those that have never worked in a
Token Ring shop, this is similar to segmenting an Ethernet LAN. The ring
sizes (port count) are determined by the number of stations. We try to
limit ours to about 100 to 150 users. Server rings are smaller, maybe on
the order of 20-40 stations.
>
> Token Ring uses pins 3,4,5,6 whereas Ethernet uses pins 1,2,3,6. Thus your
> crossover requirement using 3,4 crossed and 5,6 crossed.
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>
> Ed
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Scott Froese
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