Re: From Andy:

> The author mentioned multiple gateways and redundancy.  What you have
> described seems to suggest that it supports neither.  Is this any
> improvement over the OpenAP distro at the same site.  If you're right,
> our  best bet at the moment seems to be a hack of the OpenAP distro to
> run from  compact flash and do routing via TCP/IP.  We are not dealing
> with  thousands of nodes, so having to hard code routing on each one
> seperately  is hardly an issue.

I expect he has different definitions of "multiple gateways" and 
"redundancy" :-)

IMHO, the OpenAP distro is definitely the way it should be done.

josh.

Josh Howlett, Networking and Digital Communications Group,
Information Systems & Computing, University of Bristol.
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