[tech] Re: [ucc] WAIX is back

[David Manchester]

On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 11:07:36PM +0800, Grahame Bowland wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 10:51:18PM +0800, David Manchester wrote:
> > Indeed. On that - what's required to make the AGS do useful things?
> 
> Not much. It only has AUX so you need lots of tranceivers and 
> it will only do 10Mb. I'm pretty sure it doesn't need to tftp 
> its image or anything like that. There are about 5 of them 
> in the machine room so if any boards are fscked we can swap 
> them.

I take it AUX is the plural of AUI? French?

> For extra cuteness it would be cool to:
>   - bring up a BGP session UCS -> UCC and show UCC WAIX
>     (with appropriate filters ;-)
>   - do NAT on the AGS (or something), basically:
>        130.95.13.xx -> 172.26.42.xx
>     it's a one-to-one mapping so you don't have to keep 
>     any state and it should always work. Then all the machines 
>     could access WAIX perfectly without stupidly large 
>     routing tables.
> 
> What's required to get UCC 100Mb? I think it's sub-1k to 
> get 100Mb media converters at both ends. If UCC fund raised 
> some of this it would be affordable. The Guild should not 
> complain.
> 
> The Guild always say they need to recable; ignoring them 
> what would be the minimum to get 100Mb from wherever the 
> fibre link lands into the UCC?

What will that buy UCC tho? 
Especially if the AGS+ only does 10Mb/s ?
 
> Will investigate tommorow; I have a feeling the utility 
> LAN goes somewhere near UCC (into the Guild maybe) and 
> we can run VLAN trunks onto the dlink switches we were 
> bought. We've been wanting to try that for real; UCC 
> would be a good test.

Dlink switches. *shudder*

D.
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