[HECnet] FDDI advice
Brian Hechinger
wonko at 4amlunch.net
Thu Oct 10 18:25:06 PDT 2013
Hmm, then that's not what I had. I could swear it didn't look like a
DEChub 900 though.
-brian
On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 07:17:51PM +0200, Hans Vlems wrote:
<html><head></head><body data-blackberry-caret-color="#00a8df" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: initial;"><div id="BB10_response_div" style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">No it is one frame, cannot be split. There is a half sized gs but it has its boards mounted horizontally </div> <div id="response_div_spacer" style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br style="display:initial"></div> <div id="_signaturePlaceholder" style="font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></div> <table width="100%" style="background-color:white;border-spacing:0px;"> <tbody><tr><td id="_persistentHeaderContainer" colspan="2" style="font-size: initial; text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> <div id="_persistentHeader" style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-color: rgb(181, 196, 223); border-top-width: 1pt; padding: 3pt 0in 0in; font-family: Tahoma, 'BB Alpha Sans', 'Slate Pro'; font-size: 10pt;"> <div><b>Van: </b>Brian Hechinger</div><div><b>Verzonden: </b>donderdag 10 oktober 2013 17:25</div><div><b>Aan: </b>hecnet at Update.UU.SE</div><div><b>Beantwoorden: </b>hecnet at Update.UU.SE</div><div><b>Onderwerp: </b>Re: [HECnet] FDDI advice</div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div id="_persistentHeaderEnd" style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-color: rgb(186, 188, 209); border-top-width: 1pt; font-size: initial; text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></div><br><div id="_originalContent" style="">On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 03:19:53PM +0000, Paul_Koning at Dell.com wrote:<br>> <br>>> I think this is the one I had. Big modular thing. Maybe (and going by<br>>> really fuzzy memory here) 8U high?<br>> <br>> 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.<br><br>Hmmm. I wonder if those can be separated. I wonder if that also means<br>mine never would have worked. I don't remember having the bottom half.<br><br>That was also 10 years ago, so who knows, maybe I did have the whole<br>thing. :)<br><br>> 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.<br><br>The *only* thing I even needed it to do was bridge FDDI/FastEthernet so<br>it just ended up not being worth the effort.<br><br>It's not a small switch. :)<br><br>-brian<br></div></body></html>
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