[HECnet] FDDI advice

On Thu, 10 Oct 2013, Dave McGuire wrote: On 10/10/2013 10:35 AM, Brian Hechinger wrote: The other two: the DECbridge 900, which plugged into the 900 series modular enclosure. It's about the side of a 400 page hardcover book, FDDI to 6 Ethernet ports, 60,000 packets per second using a MC68040 at 25 MHz. I'm still proud of that. (I wrote the "fast path" packet forwarding firmware.) Neat! That's not "neat"...that's AWESOME. Just pointing it out.. ;) Then there is the Gigaswitch, a large modular chassis with lots of line cards, some FDDI, some Ethernet, possibly some with other stuff I don't remember. I think this is the one I had. Big modular thing. Maybe (and going by really fuzzy memory here) 8U high? A GigaSwitch is a lot more than 8U high. Try nearly half a rack. I'm going to assume half a 42U rack for maximum awesomeness. ;) -Dave -- Cory Smelosky http://gewt.net Personal stuff http://gimme-sympathy.org Projects