[rescue] FDDI questions.

[Brian Hechinger]

On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 11:33:01PM -0400, Michael S. Schiller wrote:
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> I've looked on ebay, and didn't see any FDDI concentrators, other than I think one that was selling for like $900 or so!

i paid $250 for my 3Com LinkBuilder (8 fibre slots, 8 copper slots) 3C780 and i
love it.  the cisco ones for for fairly cheap too i think.

> My SC2000 has lots of open sbus slots, could I just put a bunch of FDDI cards in it, and let it act as a concentrator
> (router?) for my small network? I would probably only want to connect my U5, my SS670, and my SC2000, and possibly my PC

this is going to swamp your SC2000 most likely.  i'd avoid it if possible.

> Would there be any point to leaving the 100bt network in place, or should I  just replace it totally with FDDI? If anyone
> has any suggestions I'd love to hear them. Thanks.

leave a small ethernet segment for the few machines that are completly unable
to use FDDI (i doubt you can get FDDI on the tadpole for example)

cheers,

-brian