[HECnet] FDDI advice

[Brian Hechinger]

On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 12:38:19PM -0400, 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..

Ok, yes. :)

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.

Yeah, I'm starting to believe I only had half of one. Good thing I never
tried to use it. :)

-brian