Re: [chat] Termination of FO cable

[Crossfire <xfire@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Terry Collins was once rumoured to have said:
> Crossfire wrote:
>> FDDI is a token-ring-like Fibre networking system which is supposed to
>> be superior to 100Base-FX. 
> 
> aargh - the brain remembers. It is just that I never expect to ever work
> on anything that needs it, so the knowledge just goes (somewhere into
> the archives of the brain).
> 
> Sounds like you need to look at Nortel or Cisco stuff. More likely keep
> a lookout for netgear auctions, although I believe the networking
> companies are tending to lease such gear and have a policy of trashing
> it rather than releasing it. Shame really.

I'm only really after a PCI FDDI card, more than concat. gear, since
if I add a PCI FDDI card to my routerbox, I can push serious traffic
through to the DECStation, or even better, into my 3000AXP should I
move the card, and I don't need the concatenator to do that AFAIK.

C.
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