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- Date: 31 Oct 93 21:46 -0600
- From: Rob Slade <roberts@decus.arc.ab.ca>
- Subject: Book Review: "Network Interface Technical Guide"
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- BKNTINTG.RVW 930927
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- Micro House
- Kimberly Roche, Director of Marketing
- P. O. Box 17515
- 4900 Pearl East Circle, Suite 101
- Boulder, CO 80301
- 303-443-3389 800-926-8299
- or
- P.O. Box 10492
- Clearwater, FL 34615
- 800-741-3282 813-443-6194
- "Network Interface Technical Guide", 1992
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- If you've got more than two nodes in your LAN, it's likely you've got
- more than one network interface card. And then, there's the gateway
- to the Arcnet LAN that the Art Department was so proud to get a "deal"
- on back in ... 1988, wasn't it? And the token ring that Finance *had*
- to have so that they could talk to the AS/400? And where is that last
- copy of the NE2000 documentation that the client support rep was going
- to get back to you without fail next week ... nine months ago?
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- This book is for you. Over seven hundred pages list hundreds of cards
- from dozens of manufacturers with all the jumper settings, base
- addresses, diagnostic indicators and so forth.
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- Chapters one to three give you some very brief reference material on
- LAN topology, access protocols, and calling. Chapter four gives you a
- directory of manufacturers just in case you don't have all the info
- within the book. Chapter five is the guts of the book, listing the
- cards by manufacturer and model. Five appendices list a glossary,
- node IDs, standard memory settings, common interface connector pin
- assignments, and a very brief bibliography.
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- copyright Robert M. Slade, 1993 BKNTINTG.RVW 930927
- Permission granted to distribute with unedited copies of the TELECOM
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- DECUS Canada Communications, Desktop, Education and Security group newsletters
- Editor and/or reviewer ROBERTS@decus.ca, RSlade@sfu.ca, Rob Slade at 1:153/733
- DECUS Symposium '94, Vancouver, BC, Mar 1-3, 1994, contact: rulag@decus.ca
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