On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 03:19:53PM +0000, Paul_Koning at
Dell.com wrote:
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.
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. :)
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