[geeks] FDDI

Kris Kirby kris at catonic.net
Wed Nov 6 17:22:06 CST 2002


On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, Dave McGuire wrote:
>    It's not a switch, it's a concentrator...more like a hub than a
> switch, although it doesn't come with the same "oh no, collisions!"
> stigma that a non-switching ethernet hub would have, since FDDI doesn't
> have collisions because it was well-designed in the first place.

NOOOOOOO! It can't be that easy. No! It can't!!!!!!

I got a FDDI ring up and running between two LANPlexes. And it was really
simple.

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