June 18, 2003,  J. Kaiser
Revised Dec 29, 2009   J. Kaiser

Communication between a VME/Camac data acquisition front end and one of
the ULTRIX workstations (maxwell or curie) running Oak Ridge softwaretakes place over one of two
'virtual networks' named NSLNet 1 and NSLNet 2. These networks use the
building network wiring and switches, but do NOT carry any other campus
or Internet traffic. One network should have only ONE VME system and
ONE workstation attached to it. This eliminates the possibility of a user
on one workstation interfering with data acquisition on the other.

Both workstations running the software are located on the mezzanine. Maxwell
is always connected to NSLNet 1, while curie is connected to
NSLNet 2. All areas where the front end might be located have
jacks for both NSLNet 1 and NSLNet 2, so you can just plug your front
end system into the jack for the net your workstation is on.