[SunRescue] More questions - now about FDDI

[JohnF.Davisdavis at skink.net]

Hello

For what its worth, I have two fddi sbus cards and a fddi router.  I know a
guy who has a cisco fddi router also.  If you are looking to buy anything
fddi, please let me know.  I have been planning on ebaying my fddi items
for months now.

John

On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 12:44:29PM -0700, James Lockwood wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Sep 2000 pkhoury2 at loop.com wrote:
> 
> > How hard is it to setup a small FDDI peer to peer
> > at home?  I'd like to connect 2-3 systems together, for fast
> > data transfer between all of them.  Will this be a problem if
> > I go with more than 2?
> 
> Not at all.  FDDI can run in either a ring topology (with each machine
> chaining to its neighbors) or a star topology (to a concentrator).  FDDI
> cards come in both single and dual attach flavors, you need the duals to
> chain a series of machines in a ring but singles can exist at the ends
> (though this eliminates the dual ring failover design of FDDI).
> 
> CDDI is also an alternative, it runs the same protocol over UTP with RJ45
> jacks.  Advantage is that cable is cheaper, disadvantages are that you
> lose a lot of distance capability (probably not a big deal for you) and
> the cards are somewhat less standard (require special drivers which may
> not still be supported).
> 
> > Also, what should I get by way of SBUS cards?  I was browsing
> > on eBay, but don't know what is easy to setup, etc.
> 
> Look for a Sun/NPI (Network Peripherals) single or dual attach
> board.  Most dual boards are double-wide sbus.
> 
> -James
> 
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