Wireless resources
Paper in
HTML format
MS Powerpoint slides of presentation
Paper from 1996
"Wireless Internet Access in Latvia"
ARLAN distance calculator original and
updated Latvian version.
Created in 1999,
Presented at INET'99 conferrence
June
23-25, 1999
SmartARP resources
Description in HTML
format
Description
in MS
Word format
MS
Powerpoint slides of presentation
SmartARP server for Windows
95
Linux
based
bridge and smartARP server, Version 23/6/99 (1.44MB FDD bootable image
- use
rawrite.exe to
create
diskette.) Install up to six NE2000 compatible PCI Ethernet cards (10Mbps
or
10/100Mbps) in the PC box and boot from this diskette. A Cisco IOS like
interface will come up with online help. The default configuration is that
PC
box acts as transparent Ethernet bridge (Ethernet switch) between all
installed
Ethernet interfaces. Make sure that it works in this mode, and only then
disable
broadcast forwarding and configure smartARP according to your needs.
Here is
source
and
desription
(in Latvian) of this program, written by Janis Dzerins (
jonis@latnet.lv ).
For more info,
questions, or suggestions, contact authors at: guntis@latnet.lv
Created in 1999,
Presented at TNNC'99 conferrence
June
7, 1999
February 22, 2000. Latest SmartARP developments.
SmartARP v3.0 for Windows NT
is now available thanks to Karlis Ogsts ( k.ogsts@konts.lv ).
This server is more advanced than previous servers for W95 and Linux
in the way that it allows to use also ARP requestor source IP address as
a parameter in SmartARP configuration. This feature allows use of SmartARP also with
secondary IP addresses. Another new feature in v3.0 is
possibility to log SmartARP activities to Logfile.
Source of SmartARP v3.0 for
Windows NT.
A switch which supports MAC unicast (but not broadcast or
multicast) forwarding between VLANs has been found. This feature is present in the
Switch 9300 of 3Com and it is enabled with operation mode named "allOpen". This
finding was reported by Luis Rafael
( lrafael@ipg.pt ).
According to 3Com "AllOpen" feature is present in 3Com SuperStack II Switch 9300
and Switch 3900. Under name "FastIP ON" this feature is also present
in 3Com SuperStackI II Switch 1100 and Switch 3300, and probably (according to catalogue)
also in SuperStack II Switch 610 and Switch 630. 3Com implementation of FastIP
requires
use of proprietary NIC drivers, but use of smartARP allows to use these switches
in FastIP mode with
standard NICs.
Final nice news is that our paper about SmartARP has appeared in the "Computer
Networks" journal nicely printed. Bibliographic refference:
A.Sidorovs, G.Barzdins, J.Lacis, K.Ogsts, SmartARP: merging IP and MAC
addressing for low-cost gigabit Ethernet networks, Computer Networks,
Volume 31, Number 21, 10 November 1999, Elsevier Science B.V, pp. 2193-2204.
ISSN 1389-1286
November 6, 2000:
A paper
GLOBAL HIERARCHICALLY ADDRESSED NON-BROADCAST ETHERNET
by Andris Sidorovs and Martins Erts has been presented at
2nd topical seminar on global and local networks for research and education.
Certosa di Pontignano,Siena 6-9 Nov 2000.