[rescue] The Practical Guide to FDDI

[Joshua D. Boyd]

On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 10:53:59PM +0200, Jochen Kunz wrote:
> On 2003.03.31 22:45 Joshua D. Boyd wrote:
> 
> > I've had some trouble with NFS across my LanPlex, but not with FDDI in
> > particular, and the solution was to make the NFS block size be the
> > same as ethernets just for going from ethernet to ethernet across the
> > lanplex.
> Ahh, OK. But then there is somthing else wrong in your network or (most
> probable) the LanPlex 2500 (firmware) is crap. There shouldn't be
> problems like that. A switch should be "transparent".

The problem improved tremendously when I reset the firmware to default
settings, but this "switch" still isn't totally transparent it seems.
However, it is more than just a switch.  It seems that it has extensive
VLAN and other routing features.  A most confusing piece of machinery it
is.