On Mar 24, 18:25, Mike Ford wrote:
> I was at Micro Center last night (in So Cal) and they had a stack of grey
> flip top bins with a 99 cent cable sale. Since I have thousands of cables
> at home I pawed through it to the bottom of the four bins on top and
peeked
> into one of the bins below. Lots of AC power cords, but I did pull out
> about a 20' section of some kind of fibre. Since I know a have a AUI FDDI
> type mau's I am guessing putting a section of fibre in my ethernet
network
> is fairly practical. Any suggestions on how to do it?
FDDI is a ring system, not point to point like FOIRL and 10baseFL, and it's
*not* Ethernet. It uses different protocols. I can't remember if you can
have a ring as small as 2 nodes, but I don't see why not. Anyone?
What kind of fibre it is (backbone or patch lead; 50/125 or 62/125
multimode or single mode)? Is the fibre terminated with suitable
connectors? If not, it won't be cheap to get connectors put on the ends.
Is it damaged (rudementary test by shining a bright light down it, though
that will only tell you if it's really badly damaged, it won't tell you
much else about losses). IIRC, FDDI uses lasers rather than LEDs (FOIRL
and 10baseFL use LEDs) so don't look into them!
If your MAUs really are FDDI, take a look at the FDDI FAQ at
http://www.cicese.mx/~aarmenta/frames/redes/fddi/FDDIFAQ.html and the FDDI
tutorial at
http://www.iol.unh.edu/training/fddi/htmls/index.html.
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Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York
Received on Sun Mar 25 2001 - 05:37:40 BST