From owner-freebsd-net Mon Jul 10 23:11:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from jason.argos.org (a13c249.neo.rr.com [204.210.212.249]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF89037BD3F for ; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 23:11:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@argos.org) Received: from localhost (mike@localhost) by jason.argos.org (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id e6B6Acn02099 for ; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 02:10:38 -0400 Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 02:10:38 -0400 (EDT) From: Mike Nowlin To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: FDDI Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org (This is more of a networking physical-layer question, for those of you browsing the first 3 lines & deleting messages that don't interest you.) :) I have an old DEC Alpha (3000/500S) machine that has a built-in cheapish 10Mbps ethernet interface. A certain feature that runs every night (backup via network) is starting to take way too long. Ingenious solution: 100BTx network card. Problem: they don't make them for this box. New ingenious solution: FDDI card. So now I have this lovely TurboChannel FDDI card that I don't have anything else to connect to. The backup server is a FreeBSD box with plenty of PCI slots available. The 10Mbps connection right now is through a HP 2424M switch. I've done lots of reading on FDDI, but haven't found any answers to "simple" problems - everything I've found is referring to campus-wide backbone networks with eight zillion hosts connected to them. Is is possible to "null-modem" two FDDI cards directly together by flopping the TX & RX fibers? If so, what cards are recommended for FreeBSD (the backup server)? tnx - mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message