Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 22:57:29 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Connecting two sites with fiber Message-ID: <29310.954881849@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 04 Apr 2000 13:47:29 PDT." <20000404134729.B23888@orion.ac.hmc.edu>
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In message <20000404134729.B23888@orion.ac.hmc.edu>, Brooks Davis writes: >On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 04:20:16PM -0400, Daniel Eischen wrote: >> >> 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). It sounds like you would have no trouble running two Fore ATM 155Mbit/sec (PCA-200) cards back to back. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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