[SunHELP] headless booting woes

[Mike Meredith]

hi

On Thu, 04 Jan 2001, you wrote:
> also, while i have your attention.  i don't know a single thing about
> FDDI. other than it is token based.  that's it.  i picked up three

i don't know much about sun's fddi stuff, but i know a little bit about 
the h/w side of things.

> the red light on the FDDI card comes on and stays on solid.  that's
> it.  i don't have a cable plugged into this thing, since i don't have
> anything to plug it into yet (plus, what do i plug this thing into?
> can i plug in stright into another FDDI card? what if i want to get
> all three running? do i need a
> hub/switch/concentrator/token-ring-thinger?)

you don't need a concentrator, and for only three machines it probably 
isn't worth the bother. to setup an fddi network as i know it, you will 
need to connect two sets of fibre cables between all the machines in 
two rings.