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At my first "real" job, they didn't have a real corporate LAN per se. Bunch of Macs (SE's and LC's mostly) connected in an AppleTalk/LocalTalk network via a mish-mash of Farallon Phone-Net connectors and telephone cable extenders... without any real regard to cable distances, number of devices on a segment, etc... Peer-to-peer file and print sharing. They even had some LocalTalk cards for their PC's with evil DOS drivers. They also had an SNA/TwinAx network for the midrange terminals There was a small Novell LAN that the developers used (but nobody else was allowed to touch), and the engineers had a HP-UX cluster with Ethernet, but that was isolated from the rest of the company. I (as Jr. Admin doing things like upgrading memory and installing HDD's) suggested ought to get a LAN to tie all this stuff together, as well as do thing like email, connect to the internet, etc... I ultimately got to design, select, and install the LAN and server infrastructure, along with upgrading the client machines. My solution (Ethernet, TCP/IP, Windows NT) differed from some consultants (Ethernet, IPX, Novell). My plan won out and they let me do the whole thing. Man that was fun. -sc From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 6:29 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: CompTIA certs sure, IPX on Token Ring was a SNAP < pun intended > Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, & Security ' Security is an ongoing process, not a one time event ! ' ________________________________ From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 8:23 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: CompTIA certs IPX over TR? Doom required IPX IIRC. -sc From: Pete Howard [mailto:pchow...@yahoo.com] Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 7:59 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: CompTIA certs MAU theres an ancient device. We used to use them for doom, quake dukenukem lunchtime tournaments ! ________________________________ From: Erik Goldoff <egold...@gmail.com> To: NT System Admin Issues <ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com> Sent: Mon, March 1, 2010 7:06:23 PM Subject: RE: CompTIA certs I recently tossed all my Token Ring stuff in the trash ... IBM 16/4 ISA cards, Type 1 cables, 8228 MAUs, MAU activation device ... Now just memories, sniff, sniff ! <grin> Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, & Security ' Security is an ongoing process, not a one time event ! ' -----Original Message----- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 6:57 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: CompTIA certs Yes - that's it. Proteon. And IBM, of course. On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 14:16, Erik Goldoff <egold...@gmail.com> wrote: > "Synoptics switches (not called switches, but it's been too long for me to remember the technical term)" > > Um, MAU and/or MSAU ( like the IBM 8228 ) > > "Token Ring cards from Madge, Intel and one other the name of which I can't remember." > > Proteon maybe ? Even with their 10mb ProNet Token Ring ??? > > > Erik Goldoff > IT Consultant > Systems, Networks, & Security > > ' Security is an ongoing process, not a one time event ! ' > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
