7206VXR vs. FDDI, was Re: [HECnet] FDDI advice

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Thu Oct 10 17:42:28 PDT 2013


On 10/10/2013 03:04 PM, Peter Lothberg wrote:
FDDI/CDDI is a dual ring token ring bus, with 4470 MTU byte packets,
it has 802.-- frames. DEC had a mode where you turned the token off
and used it for ptp full duplex.
I didn't know about the ptp thing. That's nifty.

A cisco FDDI-PA can talk both in a 7500 or old 7200 (the VXR don't
support the FDDI cards but the VIP does ).

  About that, Peter...is there ANY way to get a FDDI PAM to run in a
7206VXR?   Or will it just plain not work, ever?

                          -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA



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