[rescue] Good FDDI Concentrator?

[Andrew Weiss]

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From: "Jochen Kunz" <jkunz at unixag-kl.fh-kl.de>
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Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 2:37 PM
Subject: Re: [rescue] Good FDDI Concentrator?


> <snip>
> > Do they have a 100Mbit uplink module (cheaply) available?
> FDDI is 100 MBit/s. Oh, you mean 100 MBit/s Ethernet? Well, in that case
> you will need an Ethernet switch with FDDI uplink. Putting Ethernet and
> FDDI on the same logical subnet requires a bridge that can do proper
> IP-(de)fragmentation, as FDDI has a larger MTU than Ethernet. I heard

Why not just put a DEFPA and an ethernet board in a PC and route between the
subnets.  This is what I'm planning on doing.  I'd route with something
else, but right now I'm going on what I've got close to complete hardware
for.

Andrew