Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 02:10:38 -0400 (EDT) From: Mike Nowlin <mike@argos.org> To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: FDDI Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0007110201390.1877-100000@jason.argos.org>
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(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
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