| 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 |
Reading other notes in this conference the answer to my following question is I think an "YES", but I wish to check again. We are waiting for a Gigaswitch for a customer to be installed soon. In the meantime I wish to know whether we can do the following: We wish to connect the DEMFA in a VAX7610 to a DEMFA in an Alpha DEC 7630 using a BN24B-03 MIC to MIC cable, without any DECconcentrator or DECbridge or Gigaswitch. This is only temporary till we get our Gigaswitch. The above is a SAS port to a SAS port connection and I believe is quite legal. After all, when we do get the Gigaswitch and connect the DEMFA to the Gigaswitch even at that time it will be a SAS to SAS connection. So if this latter is legal why not the direct DEMFA-to-DEMFA connection. Alphonse
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 1290.1 | STAR::GAGNE | David Gagne - VMS/LAN Development | Fri Mar 25 1994 08:41 | 8 | |
The code in the DEMFA driver in OpenVMS VAX is not at its best for
operating the device in point to point mode. The driver will wait
a good amount of time (over a minute) before trying to join the ring
(once it has been unable to do so).
The OpenVMS AXP driver will try to form a ring more frequently.
You have a good chance that this will work.
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