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Conference 7.286::fddi

Title:	FDDI - The Next Generation

Moderator:	NETCAD::STEFANI

Created:	Thu Apr 27 1989
Last Modified:	Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	2259
Total number of notes:	8590

266.0. "DECnet support FDDIcontroller 400" by BERN01::DEY (Walter Dey, EIS, Berne Switzerland) Wed May 29 1991 09:09

In the announcement text of the DEC FDDIcontroller 400 (XMI) it say's

"Support for DECnet Phase IV and LAT"

However in the SPD for DECnet-VAX V5.4, DECnet-VAX 5.4 Extensions I see
no word about FDDI support.

Does that imply : FDDI support in Wave 2 ????

Walter.

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
266.1	It's supported when testing is done	STAR::GAGNE	David Gagne - VMS/LAN Development	`Wed May 29 1991 10:12`	8
	The DEC FDDIcontroller 400 is not supported on VMS V5.4, VMS V5.4-1, or VMS V5.4-2. It will be supported in a release after V5.4-2. Since the support for a given piece of hardware is not guaranteed until a release ships, it would be silly to say that the DEC FDDIcontroller 400 WILL BE SUPPORTED in VMS V5.4-3. Instead, we will say that it's planned to be supported in VMS V5.4-3. We will only know for sure when VMS V5.4-3 ships. Of course, you cannot mention any of this to customers. This is internal-only information.
266.2		BERN01::DEY	Walter Dey, EIS, Berne Switzerland	`Thu May 30 1991 03:42`	19
	re. -.1 Thanks David >> The DEC FDDIcontroller 400 is not supported on VMS V5.4, VMS V5.4-1, or >> VMS V5.4-2. It will be supported in a release after V5.4-2. Is it to early to say, wether this is called Wave1 or Wave2 ? DECnet-VAX Extensions is a kind of a layered product on VMS, therefore I am mainly interested in which DECnet-VAX Extension (wave1) or DECnet/OSI for VMS (Wave2) FDDI Controller 400 is supported. Or do you mean that the relevant driver ... are shipped with the VMS kit and not DECnet-VAX Extension ? Any clarification is helpful, because the announcement is very unclear about it. Walter.
266.3	Wave 1 specific information	STAR::GAGNE	David Gagne - VMS/LAN Development	`Thu May 30 1991 09:08`	10
	The Wave 1 kit ships Ethernet drivers (and no FDDI drivers). The only reason the Wave 1 kit is shipping these drivers is because the Wave 1 kit requires some of the changes that are in the VMS drivers (after V5.4-2). Once these new drivers are available from a VMS kit, the drivers on the Wave 1 kit are not supported. When the Wave 1 kit is installed on a VMS system that already has the new drivers, it will not install the Ethernet drivers it has on its kit. This implies that the Wave 1 kit can be installed on a VMS system that has Ethernet and FDDI drivers. You will however have to ask the Wave 1 people if their product will use the FDDI driver (and if they've tested it).