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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

1145.0. "Sun SPARC with DECconcentrator500-ok?" by OSL09::OYVINDC (�yvind Christoffersen) Wed Nov 10 1993 15:37

I have an urgent request asking if we can supply a DECconcentrator500 to
connect 12 Sun SPARCstations. Sorry that I have only limited info (it is
9:30pm here in Oslo and we need some kind of answer tomorrow morning), but the
message says that they have tried a Synoptics concentrator and that one
is not functioning. What this mean, I don't know.

Are there checkpoints that I could use to avoid the most obvious pitfalls?

I am sorry that the info is somewhat limited, but this could make an
inroad into a major engineering account and I have therefore decided to
post this note.

Any comments would be very much welcomed.

Regards,
Oyvind.

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1145.1	OK, but....	NOTAPC::LEVY		`Wed Nov 10 1993 18:03`	5
	The quick answer: Yes. BUT, there are a number of known bugs in Sun's FDDI implementation, which have been fixed in various software patches. Some of them are detailed in other notes in this file.