[geeks] FDDI

Shawn Wallbridge swallbridge at franticfilms.com
Tue Nov 5 18:18:29 CST 2002


Dave McGuire wrote:

> On Tuesday, November 5, 2002, at 06:43 PM, Shawn Wallbridge wrote:
>
>> OK, given that I will probably not run Solaris, any recommended FDDI 
>> sbus cards?
>
>
>   None.  There are no non-Solaris Sbus FDDI drivers.
>
>> And what is SMT?
>
>
>   Station ManagemenT.  The protocol by which stations are added to or 
> removed from the FDDI ring.
>
>        -Dave
>
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> Dave McGuire                  "Mmmm, big."
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Well, I gues I could look for FDDI for my non-Sbus machines. My U30, U2 
(unless someone has a decent SMP Sparc64 port), Alpha, Octane, 
Indigo2's, O2 (maybe) and PC's. But I have lots of  Sbus Sun's, so it 
would have been nice to get cheap cards and run them 100Mb/s.

shawn



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