[svlug] Networking questions.

[Marc MERLIN]

On 12 Nov 1998 13:24:55 -0800, George Bonser <grep at shorelink.com> wrote:
>> 1) CDDI is not phased out at all. It's  the easiest way to connect a desktop
>>    to a  FDDI network because you  can reuse the existing  CAT 5 wiring. The
>>    Onyx sitting in my cube is connected to SGI's FDDI backbone in that way.
>>    Even in the server room, we don't have enough fiber wiring, so we just use
>>    FDDI over CAT-5, also known as CDDI :-)
>
>I just said it is not is as much use anymore because the cost of fiber has
>dropped so much. I have a pair of 3Com cards that have a CDDI tranciever

The point is not really how much fiber costs, it's the cost of doing wiring.
Most  places are  not wired  for  fiber (be  it singlemode  or the  chearper
multimode). There, it's  much easier and cheaper  to use CDDI than  to start
laying fiber.

>> 2) There is support for FDDI under linux, the proof is that I have dual ring
>>    FDDI network in my appartement, and my PC is obviously running linux.
>
>THere is support, yes, but not for these particular cards. The DEC cards
>are supported. The 3Com's that I have are not.

Yep, that's the problem with somewhat uncommon hardware. It's more difficult
to get drivers.

Marc
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