With two 10/100 MB Ethernet HUBS we established a star topology network of computers for swath bathymetry and general purpose data processing. Among them, PC's running Linux and Windows OS, two SUN workstations (WS) running Solaris 2.7 OS, SGI O2 running IRIX 6.3. The SUN WS were devoted to TOBI data processing, whilst the LINUX WS were used for NFS disk and printer spooling services. The ship navigation computer was also connected to the network.
During the 60 days cruise, we can report just a few crashes of some machines, which recovered smoothly after the reboot or file system check.
