Grand MA Catalyst and Artnet

[dannyb]

That's cool. I won't be able to get back to my servers until Tuesday morning. I am going to be working on a few other things until then.

db

[samsc]

on the pixelmad show i just did, the grand ma came up on the artnet HUD, and we were able to communicate directly over ethernet, no artnet hubs required.

Dont know what version of the software the grandma was.

[samsc]

Im told Grandma v3.4 worked directly with pixelmad.

[Stiney3]

As I understand the Grandma can link through artnet to the catalyst in version v4.

I am going to be using a couple of NSPs and consoles linked together as well as 3 catalyst's link through Artnet. Plus, I am going to be using a 2 artnet boxes to drive pixellines through the Catalyst. I was wondering if anyone has any advice on a good way to set this up and/or pros or cons to trying this.

Thanks,

Aaron

[samsc]

As I understand the Grandma can link through artnet to the catalyst in version v4.

I am going to be using a couple of NSPs and consoles linked together as well as 3 catalyst's link through Artnet. Plus, I am going to be using a 2 artnet boxes to drive pixellines through the Catalyst. I was wondering if anyone has any advice on a good way to set this up and/or pros or cons to trying this.

Thanks,

Aaron

as long as you get the right ip address range sticking to 2.x.x.x or 10.x.x.x for all devices - using artnet is mostly foolproof.

[jasonrudolph]

As I understand the Grandma can link through artnet to the catalyst in version v4.

I am going to be using a couple of NSPs and consoles linked together as well as 3 catalyst's link through Artnet.

You might want to check with MA about this..... The NSPs run on MAnet, which must be a 100baseT line, while artnet runs at 10baseT. Unless you have two seperate ethernet outputs on the GrandMA (which some of the newer ones do) you might have problems with this.

[samsc]

an ethernet switch which can handle 10BT and 100BT will take care of any ethernet speed changes required between computers and artnet boxes, or down any backbone link.

http://www.netgear.com/products/busi..._switch_sb.php

I run artnet at Gigibit ethernet or over airport to a switch.
it also runs over fibre.

only the connection between the artnet box and final switch needs to run at 10BT.


i dont know anything about specific protocol issues with grandma desks.


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for example you can use a g5 with gigabit ethernet turned on for say - file sharing - and use artnet at gigabit ethernet speeds down the same link - as long as you use an ethernet switch which will convert ethernet to 10BT to connect to the artnet box.
Ethernet switches will try to maintain the full speeds of all the connections. they have buffers.
they also have routing tables to route data only to devices that that are active down a link.

[Stiney3]

That sounds right. I have used a grandma with a NSP and artnet before. The switch changed the speed to a 10baseT for the Artnet box but left the rest of the net work running at a 100baseT.