[rescue] FDDI

[Shawn Wallbridge]

I found an excellent FAQ at http://www.nswc.navy.mil/ITT/x3t12/FDDIFAQ.html.

But be careful, they are
watching......(http://www.nswc.navy.mil/Warning.html)

shawn

-----Original Message-----
From: rescue-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:rescue-admin at sunhelp.org]On
Behalf Of James Sharp
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 3:13 PM
To: rescue at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [rescue] FDDI


>
> I have never used FDDI and I don't have any other cards (yet), but I was
> curious. If you have two machines, can you just 'cross-over' like with
> Ethernet? I was bidding on a 14port FDDI 'Concentrator', do I need one if
I
> only have half a dozen machines?
>

Yup, you can do cross overs with the appropriate cable.  And, while you
can run a FDDI ring from machine to machine to machine to machine....a
concentrator is a little more fault tolerant.  Unless you create a full
ring with your fddi connections, if one machine breaks then your ring is
split into two pieces that can't see each other.


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