BD ethernet connection
Steve Kelley (kelley@flowcyt.cyto.purdue.edu)
Tue, 18 Aug 92 10:08:14 EST
Alice Givan writes:
I need some help in sending flow results files via Ethernet. We
are in a new building and have finally got Ethernet installed --
only to find that the BD FACSnet program cannot address our remote
computers on the network because, I am told, our network is complex
and requires routing information and sub-addresses. I know very
little about Ethernet but the FACSnet program we have in our HP340
computer has room only for a single address line (xxx.xx.xx.xx) for
the remote machine.
Any ideas???
Probably the easiest, if you have another PC and ethernet card around, is to
use FACSNET to transfer to a PC in the same room, and then use FTP to
transfer to where you really want the results. There are at least
3 or 4 absolutely free implementations of FTP (and TELNET) for PCs
running MS-DOS.
The available TCP/IP programs (FTP and TELNET and others) will have
no problem at all with your routers and subnets.
If you do this, you'll need another IP address for your relay station,
and cabling to it from the FACS and from it to the rest of the network.
Depending on local conditions, and how your networking people have things
organized, your worst case is a PC with two ethernet cards attached to
two different physical cables; the best case is everything on one
cable with one card in the PC.
Hope this helps,
Steve
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