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Re: (ASCEND) Who's got a Max 6000?
On 12 Aug 98 at 11:16, Jim Howard wrote:
> At 21:24 1998/08/11 -0500, Marcel Brown wrote:
> >In our situation, we are about to outgrow a single Max 4048. Should we get
> >another 4048, should we add a 6000 to the 4048, or would we be better off
> >selling the current 4048 and replacing it with a 6000? I guess the main
> >issue would be price/performance, with the next issue being the complexity
> >of stacking multiple 4048's.
>
> I had heard early on in the first days after the 6000 was officially
> announced that it could be "stacked" with 4000s, does this work yet?
Yep, I did it, one 6000 and a couple of 4000s. Worked OK. It was
relatively lightly used though.
> If so, does the 6000 become the "master" of the stack and thus take
> some of the processing load off of the 4000s? This alone would be
> enough for me to bring in a 6000 instead of more 4048s.
Nope, the stacking is done the same way as usual, the Max which
recieves the inital LAN session is the "master" of that LAN session.
Mike
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