[SunHELP] headless booting woes

Kevin Stevens sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Thu Jan 4 13:06:21 CST 2001


>On Thu, 04 Jan 2001, you wrote:
>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.

That will work fine if the cards are DAS (dual attach).  However, most 
workstation cards are SAS (single attach, with only one attachment pair.  If 
the cards are SAS you can't build a ring with them, you will need a FDDI 
"hub" to attach through.

KeS
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