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Conference npss::gigaswitch

Title:GIGAswitch
Notice:GIGAswitch/FDDI Jan 97 BL3.1 914.0 documentation 412.1ion 412.1
Moderator:NPSS::MDLYONS
Created:Wed Jul 29 1992
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:995
Total number of notes:4519

930.0. "Dual Homing by FGL-2" by TKOV51::KATSUBE (Taiji Katsube, NPB-J) Mon Feb 17 1997 03:19

I don't have an experience of dual homing acrross two GIGA/FDDIs using 
FGL-2 cards.
Is the following configuration valid and works fine ?

GIGA-1                     GIGA-2

Port1(M)----(B)DAS1(A)----(M)Port1 (Original port type was A)
Port1(M)----(B)DAS2(A)----(M)Port1 (Original port type was B)
Port2(M)----(B)DAS3(A)----(M)Port2 (Original port type was A)
Port2(M)----(B)DAS4(A)----(M)Port2 (Original port type was B)
Portx(S)------------------(S)Portx (connection for inter-GIGA communication)

I know DAS1 and DAS2(DAS3 and DAS4) must share the 100Mbps bandwidth.
I think maximum of 43(34+10-1) DAS stations can be connected. 
Am I right ? or any other restrictions ?
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Name		DateLines
930.1NPSS::MDLYONSMichael D. Lyons DTN 226-6943Mon Feb 17 1997 17:205
        You are correct.  This has been discussed in *MANY* other notes.
    
        Please look at the notes under the keyword failover-configurations
    
    MDL
930.2NPSS::MDLYONSMichael D. Lyons DTN 226-6943Mon Feb 17 1997 17:592
    P.S. Typically, customers use a hunt group between the two
    GIGAswitch/FDDI systems.