[rescue] The Practical Guide to FDDI

[Bjorn Ramqvist]

Chris Hedemark wrote:
> 
> Not so.  That's just the default setting.  Unless you have a Sun
> ethernet card (at least the gigabit ones, anyway, I'm not sure about
> the HME's) you can bump the MTU size effectively to 9000 bytes or so.
> 9000 bytes is a good size because NFS frames are 8K and the extra
> accounts for the packet overhead.

That's what some called "jumbo frames". The sad part about it, is that
it breaks the compatibility with machines with 100Mbit or less,
rendering it almost useless unless it's a dedicated network.

> Thanks for writing this, though.  I've always been curious about FDDI
> but there was never anything out there (that I saw anyway) that applied
> well to scroungers to familiarize them with the technology.  Since I'm
> renovating my new place now and have yet to wire it, this is definitely
> something to consider (though I have a lot of ethernet hardware and
> several hundred meters of CAT-5 cable that I scrounged).

That's why you go for Copper-FDDI (CDDI). :-)

/Bjorn