[FADCA] Take a look at this...

Sat, 19 Oct 2002 14:23:22 -0400

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rich Garcia [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Saturday, October 19, 2002 10:51 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: [FADCA] Take a look at this...
> 
> 
> Lots of stories out there on the web. A bunch of people have 
> been doing it
> for some time.
> Rich

But beyond all of that this is just another VERY good reason
to move the switch stacks to LINUX, those network devices would
be supported and their use should be pretty straight forward.

Sure would be nice to have all of the switches in the Tampa
Bay area linked using this sort of technology, even better to
have the whole state linked. Then we would have a impressive
network indeed. Perhaps we should really start concentrating
on this technology where we can rather than replacing the
radios with radios that are only a bit faster. I am seeing
a lot of these groups using DB satellite dishes for the parabolas,
I have two of them here at home, that is the reflectors for
two ends of a link. You can get the WEP11 which uses a 10baseT
connection, put it in a box mounted right behind the parabola,
and run the 10baseT cable down to the switch, now you have got
rid of a long run of coax.

I have got to get a LINUX FPAC switch going, this is just too
exiting not to get it done, once we get two or three done the
rest will be easy. 

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