From owner-freebsd-atm Fri Jul 30 8:32:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-atm@freebsd.org Received: from granite.sentex.net (granite.sentex.ca [199.212.134.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0768156E0 for ; Fri, 30 Jul 1999 08:32:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from simoeon (simeon.sentex.ca [209.112.4.47]) by granite.sentex.net (8.8.8/8.6.9) with SMTP id LAA23983; Fri, 30 Jul 1999 11:32:42 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990730113117.01b912f0@staff.sentex.ca> X-Sender: mdtpop@staff.sentex.ca X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 11:31:17 -0400 To: Wim Livens From: Mike Tancsa Subject: Re: NIC questions Cc: freebsd-atm@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <19990730171402.I20292@rc.bel.alcatel.be> References: <4.1.19990726222130.03ca7500@granite.sentex.ca> <4.1.19990726222130.03ca7500@granite.sentex.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-atm@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > I've had the same problem, connecting multimode NICs to a >singlemode switch. This was all in one room so I just used multimode >fiber from the NIC to the switch and whatever fiber with an attenuator >($50) in the other direction. It was a trial and error thing but it's >working now for over two years without any problem. Thanks for the interesting tip! I sort of solved my problem, in that the HydroElectric company (the one laying the fiber and providing cheap ATM access) made the issue go away in that as part of their service, they include the necessary device to go from single mode to UTP, so I can order the ATM card with that interface. ---Mike ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mike Tancsa, tel 01.519.651.3400 Network Administrator, mike@sentex.net Sentex Communications www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-atm" in the body of the message