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Conference netcad::hub_mgnt

Title:DEChub/HUBwatch/PROBEwatch CONFERENCE
Notice:Firmware -2, Doc -3, Power -4, HW kits -5, firm load -6&7
Moderator:NETCAD::COLELLADT
Created:Wed Nov 13 1991
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:4455
Total number of notes:16761

1653.0. "bridging FDDI" by TAVIS::ALTER () Thu Nov 03 1994 09:24

I need to bridge the Internal FDDI inside the DEChun900 with an external
FDDI.
Can I use the folowing mofules?
1. DECswitch 900 (use the internal and external fddi connectors)
2. DECconcentrator (use 2 out of the 6 interfaces as A and B)

I assume tha the PEswitch does not have DFDDI connectors on the front 
pannel so it can not be used as a bridge.

ilan
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1653.1NETCAD::B_CRONINThu Nov 03 1994 12:029
    
    If your question is "can I build a 100-100 bridge" the answer is 
    'no, that isn't possible'. To bridge together two FDDIs you need
    to use a Gigaswitch. You would build a ring in the DEChub, and then 
    connect the gigaswitch to that ring (probably via an M port of the 
    concentrator) You'd connect the other FDDI to a second bridge port
    of the gigaswitch.
    
    
1653.2TAVIS::ALTERMon Nov 07 1994 11:429
This is not what I meant.
The question was can I make an FDDI ring with the internal bus and external 
devices using either the DECconcentrator (port 1 and 6) or the DECswitch
(its FDDI interfaces on the front pannel).
I assume that using the PEswitch it cant be done (since it doesn't have 
FDDI connectors on the front pannel).
can someone confirm it?

Ilan
1653.3NETCAD::SLAWRENCEMon Nov 07 1994 11:504
    
    Yes - you can make the backplane FDDI connect to an external FDDI with
    any hub device that has front panel FDDI connectors.
    
1653.4PEswitch 900TX has no FDDI out the front - confirmedNETCAD::BATTERSBYMon Nov 07 1994 13:239
    RE: Note 1653.2 by TAVIS::ALTER
    
    >>I assume that using the PEswitch it cant be done (since it doesn't have
    >>FDDI connectors on the front pannel).
    
    That is correct. The PEswitch 900TX does not have any FDDI connection
    on its front panel.
    
    Bob