[PD-ot] OT networking hubs ?

[IOhannes m zmoelnig]

mark Allan wrote:
> greetings list
> 
> id love to network several computers running puredata OSC , but i have 
> no experince of networking other then what i have learned with puredata 
> and the likes running on 1 machine ..
> 
> i presume i need some sort of hardware hub device to communicate to a 
> batch of machines ?
> dose anyone here have experience networking several computers for use 
> with puredata ?

as we are living in times of the internet, the risk of "nasty pitfalls" 
is rather low.
what you need is:

> 
> if so could you perhaps point me in the direction of what hardware i 
> might want to look at?
x computers (with network cards: any "normal" network card should do; as 
  linux is primarily used for networking issues, chances are very, very 
low to purchase an unsupported network-hardware (probably there might be 
problems if you tend to buy super-dooper all of the newest 10GBit-cards 
- but even some of these are supported)
x network cables (normal cat5; NON-crossed-over)
1 hub/switch (or several if you have *many* computers)
power-supply for everything

> or even a place i could learn more about the ins and outs of networking .
> 
have a look at /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/

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IOhannes