[geeks] FDDI

[Shawn Wallbridge]

Joshua D Boyd wrote:

>On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 05:43:33PM -0600, Shawn Wallbridge wrote:
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>>> Software SMT isn't much of a performance penalty really...it just 
>>>makes things very difficult driver-wise.
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>>OK, given that I will probably not run Solaris, any recommended FDDI 
>>sbus cards?
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>My understanding was that your ownly hope for non-solaris FDDI support
>on a Sun is to use a PCI sun and a Digital DEFPA card.
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Damn. That makes the switch almost useless for me. I only plan to run 
Solaris on two machines :-(

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>>And what is SMT?
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>One of the protocols in FDDI.  I believe that it is the part that passes
>the token about, but I'm not really an expert, so someone should correct
>me. 
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Ahh. I see. I guess I should have read more about FDDI before I bid on 
the switch.

Anyone wanna buy a Cisco FDDI switch? ;-)

shawn