From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Apr 4 13:20:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from pcnet1.pcnet.com (pcnet1.pcnet.com [204.213.232.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FC5037B82E for ; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 13:20:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eischen@vigrid.com) Received: (from eischen@localhost) by pcnet1.pcnet.com (8.8.7/PCNet) id QAA03707 for freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 16:20:16 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 16:20:16 -0400 (EDT) From: Daniel Eischen Message-Id: <200004042020.QAA03707@pcnet1.pcnet.com> To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org Subject: Connecting two sites with fiber Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hello, I've got a fiber connection between two buildings and need to setup networks in each building so they can talk to each other at full-duplex fast ethernet speeds. I know very little about fiber connections. The fiber cables are labeled as follows: Chromatic Technologies 800 series 62 5/125 Optical Fiber Cable per article 770 Type OFNP (UL) CSA LL82385 Type OFN-FT6 75C What is this telling me? Can I setup a FreeBSD router box on each end with fiber (FDDI?) interfaces to each other? Is a switch on each side an easier solution? Will this cable even support 100Mbps full-duplex speeds between the two networks? We'd like to use the existing connection, as it would be more costly to replace it (re-run wires underground). Thanks, -- Dan Eischen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message