[HECnet] FDDI advice

yOn Thu, 10 Oct 2013, Brian Hechinger wrote: On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 01:24:19PM -0400, Cory Smelosky wrote: On Thu, 10 Oct 2013, Brian Hechinger wrote: On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 01:19:02PM -0400, Dave McGuire wrote: On 10/10/2013 01:16 PM, Hans Vlems wrote: Fddi was the answer for production plants that required 100% uptime Only once did Fddi let me down and made me go back to work at 3:30 am, the worst time to wake up. One of the boards in a gs/fddi failed, isolating two plants. I did manage to explode a power supply in a gs. Made one hell of ?bang, fortunately that part was redundant so the net stayed up. Yuck! Compared to fast ethernet, I prefer fddi. Same here. Too expensive for private or hobbyist use though. Hardly. You just need the right connections. I was nearly 100% FDDI on my home network in the mid-1990s...didn't take all that much money. I didn't have much! ;) Hell, when I got into FDDI in the early 2000s it was cheaper than FastEthernet! -brian I was contemplating making my house 4-way redundant. MoCa. FE, FibreChannel, and FDDI. All to link to the basement. If I had the cables I woulda done it, too... You're weird. :) Thank you! -brian -- Cory Smelosky http://gewt.net Personal stuff http://gimme-sympathy.org Projects