| 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 |
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Consider multiple IP subnets, amongst one is FDDI based, the others are tr. As I've learned today, linking the tr subnets to the FDDI by an ip router should provide better threwput than using MAC level x-lation bridges, but that's not the question here. Question: 1. Does our tcp/ip on: 1.a: ULTRIX 1.b: DEC OSF/1 support ip routing on a FDDI datalink? (I suppose x-lation bridging is no problem). Thanks for any comment on that *donald
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 540.1 | MIPSBX::thomas | The Code Warrior | Wed Apr 15 1992 11:10 | 1 | |
yes yes (and neither ultrix or osf/1 supports bridging). | |||||
| 540.2 | .0 was unprecise | MUDIS3::DPOLZIN | Damned the torp's, full speed ahead | Thu Apr 16 1992 03:24 | 12 |
Thomas, Sorry for being unprecise in .0, the linking device between the tr(s) and FDDI is Wellfleet BCN, which can behave as x-lation bridge / ip-router both. The wellfleet people were not sure, that our TCP/IP on FDDI supports a subnet router (that's clear from .1 now, in fact we can even be the router itself). x-lation bridging for the wellfleet should work, because it is transparent to our TCP/IP 'endnodes'. (Would like to see the DECnis there, but tr is still on its way) *donald | |||||