[geeks] FDDI

[Dave McGuire]

On Tuesday, November 5, 2002, at 06:47 PM, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> My understanding was that your ownly hope for non-solaris FDDI support
> on a Sun is to use a PCI sun and a Digital DEFPA card.

   Pretty much, yes.

>> And what is SMT?
>
> One of the protocols in FDDI.  I believe that it is the part that 
> passes
> the token about, but I'm not really an expert, so someone should 
> correct
> me.

   SMT handles station insertions and removals.  Token handling is done 
in hardware, except for regeneration which *might* be handled by SMT, I 
don't recall.

       -Dave

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