10 Oct
2013
10 Oct
'13
8:17 p.m.
No it is one frame, cannot be split. There is a half sized gs but it has its boards
mounted horizontally
Van: Brian Hechinger
Verzonden: donderdag 10 oktober 2013 17:25
Aan: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
Beantwoorden: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
Onderwerp: Re: [HECnet] FDDI advice
On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 03:19:53PM +0000, Paul_Koning at Dell.com wrote:
Hmmm. I wonder if those can be separated. I wonder if that also means
mine never would have worked. I don't remember having the bottom half.
That was also 10 years ago, so who knows, maybe I did have the whole
thing. :)
I think this is the one I had. Big modular thing.
Maybe (and going by
really fuzzy memory here) 8U high?
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. 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.
The *only* thing I even needed it to do was bridge FDDI/FastEthernet so
it just ended up not being worth the effort.
It's not a small switch. :)
-brian