[rescue] FDDI primer

[Andrew Weiss]

On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Dave McGuire wrote:

>   Would you like some more technical information to read about?  I can
> type some more later today if you're interested.  I can tell you
> basically how it works, how it's better than ethernet, the rules for
> connecting things together, etc etc..
>
>        -Dave

I would... I'm definitely entertaining the notion of running FDDI in the
house since I have 10 or so computers I wish to network and for now I have
an 8 port 10/100 Workgroup hub.  I wish to keep the main machines (PPro
and a Mac) running at 100MBps on fast ethernet (to play Diablo II and
other games), but the rest of the machines I own are all 10Mbps.  I could
get a switch, or I could literally segment the network with a router
(something I want to do eventually anyhow), but my Crimson has a FDDI
board in it now - Thanks Dan... so I'd like to slowly get started.  There
are what appears to be four gold connectors (from memory) that look like
tiny BNC ports. (I could start a FDDI ring with one machine being the
gateway to the fast ethernet segment, and perhaps another machine for a
cheapo trash hub 10Mbps segment... or I could just try to get FDDI for all
the older equipment...not likely...)

Other 10Mbps systems

IBM RS/6000 MCA 7006 41T AUI -> TP (will run AIX 4.3.3)
Sun Sparc LX (Will probably run Solaris 7, or maybe 8)
Sun Sparcstation 2 (Will probably run SuSE 7.1 Linux... or maybe NetBSD)
HP 9000 712/100 (NEXTSTEP or HP-UX... haven't decided... probably not
compatible with the former)
Powermac 8100/80AV (Yellowdog Linux)
Quadra 840AV (Debian 2.2r3)

Andrew

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