10 Oct
2013
10 Oct
'13
8:25 p.m.
Hmm, then that's not what I had. I could swear it didn't look like a
DEChub 900 though.
-brian
On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 07:17:51PM +0200, Hans Vlems wrote:
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style="">On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 03:19:53PM +0000, Paul_Koning at Dell.com
wrote:<br>> <br>>> I think this is the one I had. Big
modular thing. Maybe (and going by<br>>> really fuzzy memory here) 8U
high?<br>> <br>> I was going to say "that sounds
right" based on my memory of seeing one gathering dust around here. But the picture
here: http://www.global-itcorp.com/products/digital-dec/networking/gigaswitch/ shows a
much taller enclosure, half line card space and half power supply. Each section does
look like 8U or so.<br><br>Hmmm. I wonder if those can be separated. I wonder
if that also means<br>mine never would have worked. I don't remember having the
bottom half.<br><br>That was also 10 years ago, so who knows, maybe I did have
the whole<br>thing. :)<br><br>> Some searching turns up
refurbished Gigaswitch modules. Some are pretty cheap, but it looks like those are ATM
ones, the FDDI ones I see quoted are more expensive. Perhaps because FDDI was fairly
successful at least for a short time, while ATM (as a LAN) was an utter
failure.<br><br>The *only* thing I even needed it to do was bridge
FDDI/FastEthernet so<br>it just ended up not being worth the
effort.<br><br>It's not a small switch.
:)<br><br>-brian<br></div></body></html>