9 Jul
2004
9 Jul
'04
7:28 a.m.
On Fri, 9 Jul 2004 14:00:57 -0400
Paul Koning <pkoning(a)equallogic.com> wrote:
Sure, neat if you can find it.
There is plenty
of FDDI stuff on ePay for cheap.
But FDDI is dead, dead, dead.
??? Isn't all
the stuff we use and talk about here "dead, dead, dead"?
Even 10 MBit/s Ethernet is "dead, dead, dead". (At least in its 10Base5
and 10Base2 incarnations.) FDDI is the "proper" and in most cases only
available 100 MBit/s network technology for older machines like a SGI
Indigo or DEC 3000.
And Ethernet doesn't have any collisions either if
you run it full
duplex.
And when two machines are pushing 8 MBit/s each to a third machine? The
target machine surely can't handle 16 MBit/s with its 10 MBit/s physical
link. So you loose bandwith due to collisions in case of high load - the
case where you don't want to loose any bandwith.
--
tsch??,
Jochen
Homepage: http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz/