FDDI, was: Re: [rescue] u2 drive trays

Tue Aug 19 15:58:37 CDT 2003

On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 01:18:16PM -0500, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, Dave McGuire wrote:
> 
> >    You need a switch.  It takes serious smarts to bridge between
> > Ethernet and FDDI.
> 
> This is my primary reason for isolating FDDI to the areas of my network
> that really need it:  The backbone between the mail server, web server,
> NFS server, and backup server.

Shouldn't IPFilter running on a U1 with a HME card, a SunFDDI card (the
current kind) be able to handle the task?  I really need to tie FDDI and
FastE together, and it would be nicest if they were on the same subnet.