[rescue] Good FDDI Concentrator?

[Dave McGuire]

On Wednesday, February 5, 2003, at 05:53 PM, Andrew Weiss wrote:
>> <snip>
>>> Do they have a 100Mbit uplink module (cheaply) available?
>> FDDI is 100 MBit/s. Oh, you mean 100 MBit/s Ethernet? Well, in that 
>> case
>> you will need an Ethernet switch with FDDI uplink. Putting Ethernet 
>> and
>> FDDI on the same logical subnet requires a bridge that can do proper
>> IP-(de)fragmentation, as FDDI has a larger MTU than Ethernet. I heard
>
> Why not just put a DEFPA and an ethernet board in a PC and route 
> between the
> subnets.  This is what I'm planning on doing.  I'd route with something
> else, but right now I'm going on what I've got close to complete 
> hardware
> for.

   Eeeew.

   Use a PC as a critical part of a network?  That's not such a hot 
idea.  Unless the network is totally unimportant, that is.

       -Dave

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