Ronja 10M Metropolis: Requirements (Modules, Material, Tools, Software)

Material Required

One fullduplex Network Interface Card with AUI interface. PCI recommended. 3c900 combo is the best. 3c509 and RTL8029 bring somewhat reduced maximum distance due to cheap PLL in the NIC. 3c509 brings reduced throughput due to ISA bus.
Testing Ronja 10M Metropolis may be done also with two half duplex cards.
A bunch of big retroreflectors (those big red triangular ones with 15cm side of the triangle) glued with epoxy to a piece of some board. Number necessary for comfortable aiming:
Number of retroreflectors required (those big red triangular with 16cm side)
Distance Retroreflectors

450m 1

800m Car warning triangle

900m 4

1100m 6

1.4km 9

Also a car warning triangle may be used (up to 800m).
200mV-20V digital DC voltmeter or 30mV-20V analogue voltmeter

Torque wrench for 17mm or 16mm hex heads (depends on your M10 bolt/screw manufacturer's taste)

You need an operating system and software equipment (user application) that support the following features:

Driver for the network card capable of full duplex. Testing Ronja 10M Metropolis may also be done with two half-duplex cards.
Internet Protocol (IP)
Manipulating ARP table. Possibility to establish permament (manual) ARP table entries is required for testing Ronja 10M Metropolis.
Sniffing Ethernet frames or IP packets
Setting the NIC into promiscuous mode is required for testing Ronja 10M Metropolis.
Automatic repeated sending of ICMP Echo Requests on user's request. Required for testing Metropolis. 56-byte and 1400-byte requests are required. 1-second and zero-second delay between consecutive packets must be supported. Cisco-style timing where next packets is sent immediately upon reception of the previous is also highly recommended for the testing.