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Chapter 1
VINES Overview
This overview of the Virtual Networking System (VINES) looks briefly at
• VINES network organization, architecture, and addressing scheme
• Router software for VINES services, including the data link and routing
protocols
VINES Networks
Banyan Systems developed VINES as a network for personal computers. Based
on UNIX System 5.3, VINES uses a distributed system environment wherein PC
users easily communicate and share hardware (such as printers, disk space, and
modems) and software (such as files and applications) transparently on a network.
To a PC user, VINES presents a complex, multivendor network as if it were a
single-vendor network. Resources from all servers on the network are available to
individual PCs with system administrators controlling access to those resources.
A VINES network employs servers, clients, and various communications
hardware connected over LANs and WANs (F
igure 1-1):
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Servers
are computers that run VINES server software to provide connectivity
and services, such as file and print services, to PC users. Banyan and several
other vendors manufacture VINES server hardware.
•
Clients
are PCs that run VINES client software and use the services provided
by servers.
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