[geeks] FDDI

Joshua D Boyd jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu
Wed Nov 6 17:24:37 CST 2002


On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 11:22:06PM +0000, Kris Kirby wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, Dave McGuire wrote:
> >    It's not a switch, it's a concentrator...more like a hub than a
> > switch, although it doesn't come with the same "oh no, collisions!"
> > stigma that a non-switching ethernet hub would have, since FDDI doesn't
> > have collisions because it was well-designed in the first place.
> 
> NOOOOOOO! It can't be that easy. No! It can't!!!!!!
> 
> I got a FDDI ring up and running between two LANPlexes. And it was really
> simple.

What did you have to do other than plug in the cables?

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd



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