The 900 series didn't support cddi iitc
Van: Mark Wickens
Verzonden: donderdag 10 oktober 2013 16:59
Aan: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
Beantwoorden: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
Onderwerp: Re: [HECnet] FDDI advice
On 10/10/2013 15:32, Paul_Koning at
On Oct 10,
2013, at 8:44 AM, Brian Hechinger <wonko at 4amlunch.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 02:36:04PM +0200, Peter Lothberg wrote:
>> ...
>> For example cisco/cabletron/crecendo had ethnernet switches with a
>> FDDI uplink, that you could use.
> DEC made one as well, it was that large modular thingie. I used to have
> one. Never got it powered on as it was enormous.
DEC made at least three.
The original one is the DECbridge 500, a 3U rack mounted device, 3 or 4 cards, 3
Ethernets (10 Mb/s) to FDDI. See the DTJ issue I mentioned in my previous note.
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.)
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.
paul
I meant to say that I have a DEC VNswitch 900XX plugged into a DEChub
One MX - there are clearly modular parts to that, but I'm presuming
there isn't a FDDI copper module that I would be able to use?
Thanks, Mark.
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