[geeks] FDDI

Joshua D Boyd jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu
Tue Nov 5 17:47:48 CST 2002


On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 05:43:33PM -0600, Shawn Wallbridge wrote:

> >  Software SMT isn't much of a performance penalty really...it just 
> >makes things very difficult driver-wise.

> OK, given that I will probably not run Solaris, any recommended FDDI 
> sbus cards?

My understanding was that your ownly hope for non-solaris FDDI support
on a Sun is to use a PCI sun and a Digital DEFPA card.

> And what is SMT?

One of the protocols in FDDI.  I believe that it is the part that passes
the token about, but I'm not really an expert, so someone should correct
me. 

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd



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