[Gb-ccb] ccb IP addresses & names

[John Ford]

Brian Mason writes:
 > 
 > I'm going to put in a request for the IP names to Chris et al.  I think
 > this is what we want:
 > 
 > computer
 > name      network
 > ccb1cm    gbt
 > ccb3mm    gbt
 > ccblab    gb
 > ccbspare  gb
 > 
 > I'm not sure we need the ccbspare IP-- the spare is a physical spare ccb,
 > and if we use it I would imagine it would be in the Rx room connected to
 > the ccb1cm cable, say--or maybe at some point we would have two running in
 > the lab at once?  But no harm in getting all 4 for completeness.

>From what I remember, Lab is the "exploded" model that we will use for
testing, while spare is exactly that, a fully functional spare that we
will keep on the shelf.  

I think that you are right that we need cables in the lab that will
address Lab and Spare.  I can see where we might want to run Spare
in the lab for testing while we have Lab running, too.

 > 
 > In this regard note that the cable with the "spare" pin address isn't
 > straightforwardly useful as a spare cable functionally speaking. More
 > useful as Rich and I discussed briefly the other day is to have an extra
 > 1cm, 3mm, and lab *cable*.

Agreed.  Or a cable that can be quickly modified, for instance by
snipping off the address jumpers from the connector.

John

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