7206VXR vs. FDDI, was Re: [HECnet] FDDI advice

On Thu, 10 Oct 2013, Dave McGuire wrote: On 10/10/2013 12:57 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote: On Thu, 10 Oct 2013, Dave McGuire wrote: On 10/10/2013 03:04 PM, Peter Lothberg wrote: FDDI/CDDI is a dual ring token ring bus, with 4470 MTU byte packets, it has 802.-- frames. DEC had a mode where you turned the token off and used it for ptp full duplex. I didn't know about the ptp thing. That's nifty. A cisco FDDI-PA can talk both in a 7500 or old 7200 (the VXR don't support the FDDI cards but the VIP does ). About that, Peter...is there ANY way to get a FDDI PAM to run in a 7206VXR? Or will it just plain not work, ever? I thought PAs were compatible across all chassis? Maybe in a VXR with an STD NPE? No, not all PAs are supported in all chassis. I think that was Cisco's way of forcing premature obsolecense on some things. You know what I think about that. ;) Time to throw out Cisco specs and make it work anyway! I need EEPROM debugging tools. -Dave -- Cory Smelosky http://gewt.net Personal stuff http://gimme-sympathy.org Projects