[c-nsp] Old FDDI question

[Mike Sawicki]

On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 10:23:33PM -0400, Bill Wichers wrote:
> I have an application where I need a temporary protected fiber link, and
> have some old (antique?) PA-FDDI cards that can be used. FDDI gives the
> 100 Mb/s and the path protection, but are there any reasons to *not* use
> such a link for general Internet traffic? The link will be temporary and
> will be replaced in some 4-6 months, and is just a point-to-point between
> two POPs. I'm just afraid of seeing wierd, unexpected problems like people
> sometimes report with the ISL Ethernet PAs...
> 

FDDI is definitely compatible with the internets.

Seriously, though, works fine.  I'm still using it on my network ..
I didn't just say that.

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Mike Sawicki (fifi at HAX.ORG)