[geeks] Best way to bridge FDDI (CDDI) <----> Ethernet<--->Ethernet?

Jochen Kunz jkunz at unixag-kl.fh-kl.de
Tue May 5 00:54:43 CDT 2015


Am 05.05.15 um 03:50 schrieb Cory Smelosky:
> 
> I need to manage to bridge CDDI (copper FDDI) and ethernet and I'd
> rather not use a big honking Pentium 4 server to do it...what are some
> small and lightweight (and cheap!) alternatives.
I used to do that with a Cabletron Systems Ethernet switch which had
FDDI uplink ports. It did true bridgeing. Unfortunately it was 10 MBit/s
Ethernet only. Later I used an IBM RS/6000 43P-100 running NetBSD as a
router. I.e. I had separate subnets for FDDI and Ethernet.
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tsch|_,
       Jochen


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