[rescue] Good FDDI Concentrator?

[vance at neurotica.com]

On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Andrew Weiss wrote:

> > <snip>
> > > Do they have a 100Mbit uplink module (cheaply) available?
> > FDDI is 100 MBit/s. Oh, you mean 100 MBit/s Ethernet? Well, in that case
> > you will need an Ethernet switch with FDDI uplink. Putting Ethernet and
> > FDDI on the same logical subnet requires a bridge that can do proper
> > IP-(de)fragmentation, as FDDI has a larger MTU than Ethernet. I heard
>
> Why not just put a DEFPA and an ethernet board in a PC and route between
> the subnets.  This is what I'm planning on doing.  I'd route with
> something else, but right now I'm going on what I've got close to
> complete hardware for.

Because then you have two separate networks, and that carries its own set
of problems.

Peace...  Sridhar