From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Apr 4 13:58:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FBB537BFC7 for ; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 13:58:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost.freebsd.dk [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA29312; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 22:57:29 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Brooks Davis Cc: Daniel Eischen , freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Connecting two sites with fiber In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 04 Apr 2000 13:47:29 PDT." <20000404134729.B23888@orion.ac.hmc.edu> Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 22:57:29 +0200 Message-ID: <29310.954881849@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In message <20000404134729.B23888@orion.ac.hmc.edu>, Brooks Davis writes: >On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 04:20:16PM -0400, Daniel Eischen wrote: >> >> I've got a fiber connection between two buildings and need to setup >> networks in each building so they can talk to each other at full-duplex >> fast ethernet speeds. >> >> I know very little about fiber connections. The fiber cables are >> labeled as follows: >> >> Chromatic Technologies 800 series 62 5/125 Optical Fiber Cable per >> article 770 Type OFNP (UL) CSA LL82385 Type OFN-FT6 75C >> >> What is this telling me? Can I setup a FreeBSD router box on each >> end with fiber (FDDI?) interfaces to each other? Is a switch on >> each side an easier solution? Will this cable even support 100Mbps >> full-duplex speeds between the two networks? >> >> We'd like to use the existing connection, as it would be more costly >> to replace it (re-run wires underground). It sounds like you would have no trouble running two Fore ATM 155Mbit/sec (PCA-200) cards back to back. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message